Terry Eagleton - Language Quotes

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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