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After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
- Terry Eagleton
Collection: Literary Theory
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You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
- Terry Eagleton
Collection: Literary Theory
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
- Nancy Pearcey
Collection: Literary Theory
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First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
- Mason Cooley
Collection: Literary Theory
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What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .
- Terry Eagleton
Collection: Literary Theory
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Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.
- Terry Eagleton
Collection: Literary Theory
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If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.
- Terry Eagleton
Collection: Literary Theory
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It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
- Terry Eagleton
Collection: Literary Theory
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He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts 'but to experience certain emotions and to be put in a certain disposition.' Hence his famous literary theory that tragedy effected a purification (katharsis) of the emotions of terror and pity that amounted to an experience of rebirth.
- Karen Armstrong
Collection: Literary Theory