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Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.

Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.

Terry Eagleton
Reading, Practice, Literature
"Literary Theory: An Introduction". Book by Terry Eagleton, 1983.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

Terry Eagleton
Art, Philosophy, Literature
"The death of universities" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

Terry Eagleton
Everyday, Ordinary, Literature
Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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

Terry Eagleton
Literature, Language, Speak
Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.120, John Wiley & Sons

Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.

Terry Eagleton
Odds, Syntax, Literature
"A puritan at play" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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