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" Deconstruction ... insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. " # Women # Truth # Institutions

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" What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons -- reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for. " # Ideology # Love # Mistakes

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" 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. " # Literature # Language # Weddings

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" Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. " # Modern and Modernism # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Humor

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" 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. " # Political Correctness # Politicians and Politics # Language

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" All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that. " # Propaganda # Simplicity # Popularity

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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. " # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing # Engineering

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" 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. " # Crisis # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Poetry and Poets

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" Ideaology is a contemporary mythology. " # Myth

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" Chaucer was a class traitor Shakespeare hated the mob Donne sold out a bit later Sidney was a nob. " # Writers and Writing # Mobs # Treason

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Terence Francis Eagleton is a British literary theorist and critic, regarded by some as Britain's most influential living literary critic. Formerly Eagleton was Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and John...

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