Terry Eagleton Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

  Terry Eagleton

  Silly, Frustration, Self

  The Guardian, October 27, 1992.

• 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.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Bus Stops, Everyday

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

• With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.

  Terry Eagleton

  Home, Character, Plot

  "A puritan at play" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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

  Terry Eagleton

  Literature, Language, Speak

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.120, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Terry Eagleton

  Interesting, Language, Schizophrenic

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.138, John Wiley & Sons

• Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.

  Terry Eagleton

  Waiting, Language

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

• Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.

  Terry Eagleton

  Hangover, Uprising, Levels

  The Guardian, October 27, 1992.

• Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

  Terry Eagleton

  Political, Identity, Demand

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

• Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

  Terry Eagleton

  Everyday, Ordinary, Literature

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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