Terry Eagleton: Citations en anglais
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 151
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 111
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 113 (See also: Julian Jaynes)
“You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.”
Preface, p. xi
2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011)
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)
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 3, 79
2000s, After Theory (2003)
“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
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 120
Source: 1980s, Against The Grain (1986), Ch. 10, The Critic as Clown
“At the level of experience the social whole remains opaque to the agents.”
Source: 1990s, Ideology (1991), p. 136
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 62
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 5, p. 115
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 1, p. 8
“Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.”
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 5, p. 138
1990s, Ideology (1991)
“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
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 2, p. 12
