#WritersCoffeeClub 20 Aug - Name something unexpected you had to learn for a work.

"Some texts are born literary, some achieve literariness, and some have literariness thrust upon them.
There is no 'essence' of literature whatsoever.
Literature, in the sense of a set of works of assured and unalterable value, distinguished by certain shared inherent properties, does not exist."

#TerryEagleton #LiteraryTheory

"What supplies meaningfulness to my experience for Husserl is not language but the act of perceiving particular phenomena as universals - an act which is supposed to occur independently of language itself. For Husserl, in other words, meaning is something which pre-dates language: language is no more than a secondary activity which gives names to meanings I somehow already possess."

Literary Theory
#TerryEagleton #Phenomenology

"But what if I were to hear someone at the next pub table remark 'This is awfully squiggly handwriting!' Is this 'literary' or 'non-literary' language? As a matter of fact it is 'literary' language, because it comes from Knut Hamsun's novel Hunger."

Literary theory – #TerryEagleton

> トランプが意味することの一部とは、ひとつの文明が長期間にわたって物質的諸目標の達成にむけて専念すると必ずある種の精神的衰退を経験するという事実である。トランプの浅薄さと生半可な教養、彼にみられる深みや繊細さの純然たる欠如は、合衆国における広範囲におよぶ病理の徴候である。たとえその病理が、その国の指導者のなかにひどく誇張され戯画化されて出現しているとしても。

#TerryEagleton 『アメリカ人はどうしてああなのか』

"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. I know this because the texture, rhythm and resonance of your words are in excess of their abstractable meaning - or, as the linguists might more technically put it, there is a disproportion between the signifiers and the signifieds."

𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺
- Terry Eagleton

#Literature
#TerryEagleton

“There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.” — Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right
#qotd #TerryEagleton #Quote #Insolence #Power

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