Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 7, p. 177
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“Deconstruction… insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.”
Frère Jacques: The Politics of Deconstruction, ch. 6, Against the Grain (1984)
1980s
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 48
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 64-65
Introduction: What is Literature?, p. 2
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
Contexte: Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur "Thou still unravished bride of quietness," then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
“Reading is not a straightforward linear movement,”
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 67 (See also: Northrop Frye)
Contexte: 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.
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 1, p. 6
“It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.”
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 4, p. 65
Source: 1990s, Ideology (1991), p. 136
New Preface to Literary Theory: An Introduction, Anniversary Edition, (2008)
2000s
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 9, p. 197
(2011) Literary Theory: An Introduction. p. 147
2010s
“The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.”
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 4, p. 70
Source: 1980s, Against The Grain (1986), Ch. 13, The Revolt of the Reader
“It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it.”
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 114
“Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of… revolutionary avant-gardism.”
Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism, ch. 9 (1985)
1980s
Afterword, p. 190
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
Conclusion: political Criticism, p. 174
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
Afterword, p. 190
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
“There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.”
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 4, p. 100
2000s, After Theory (2003)
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 10, p. 236
Guardian (October 27, 1992)
1990s
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 167
