Terry Eagleton Quotes About Reading

• Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.

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  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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• Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.

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  "Literary Theory: An Introduction". Book by Terry Eagleton, 1983.

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• Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

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  "Against The Grain". Book by Terry Eagleton, 1986.

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• Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.

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  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.111, John Wiley & Sons

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• I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is very astute. McEwan, I read a bit. But I suppose it's more the ideological phenomenon that they represent together that interests me.

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