Terry Eagleton quotes - page 6

The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness' of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska. (Terry Eagleton)
The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. View quote
Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

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Photo: Rosa Luxemburg-Stiftung, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: British Writer
Born: February 22, 1943
Quotes count: 127
Wikipedia: Terry Eagleton

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