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Terence Francis Eagleton dit Terry, né le 22 février 1943 à Salford, Grand Manchester, est un théoricien et critique de la littérature britannique, actuellement considéré comme l'un des plus influents du monde britannique.

✵ 22. février 1943
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“Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.”

Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 151

“If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.”

Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 131

“Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.”

Conclusion: political Criticism, p. 172
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)

“Chaucer was a class traitor
Shakespeare hated the mob
Donne sold out a bit later
Sidney was a nob.”

Source: 1980s, Against The Grain (1986), Ch. 14, The Ballad of English Literature

“All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.”

Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 145 (See also: Rene Girard)

“What perished in the Soviet Union was Marxist only in the sense that the Inquisition was Christian”

2000s, Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition Marxism and Literary Theory (2002)

“If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades.”

Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 1, p. 21

“When it comes to who exactly should be exploited, the system is admirably egalitarian.”

Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 7, p. 162

“It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.”

Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 120

“Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.”

Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 138

“Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.”

Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 6, p. 134

“History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.”

Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 3, p. 44

“Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.”

Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 9, p. 202

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