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“You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.”

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Terry Eagleton is a renowned British literary critic, known for his research on Marxist literary theory. His work spans a wide range of literary and theoretical topics, influencing cultural studies and political commentary as well. more

“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.”

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Book:How to Read Literature

Source: How to Read Literature

“Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.”

Kind Possibility Mythology Contemporary Ideology Alternatives Realms Ambiguity

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“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.”

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Book:Ideology: An Introduction

Source: Ideology: An Introduction

“Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish in that way.”

Way Used Fetish Totems Yahweh

Author:Terry Eagleton

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”

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Author:Stanley Fish

“The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.”

Ideas Reading Humanism Deeds Core

Author:Stanley Fish

“This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.”

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Book:How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

Source: How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

“No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.”

Connections Structure Floats

Book:How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

Source: How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.”

Giving Language Shapes Perception

Author:Stanley Fish

“Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.”

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Book:Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education

Source: Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education

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