Eagleton, Terry - How to Read Literature
O p e n i n g s 3 1 poem written in memory of his fellow poet Edward King, who was drowned at sea and is the Lycidas of the piec ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 3 2 business at the time. No doubt this is why Milton signed the poem with his initials on ...
O p e n i n g s 3 3 just a standard piece of hyperbole. We are not expected to take them as burningly sincere. It is true that ‘ ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 3 4 too will be ‘plucked’ in the end, perhaps before his time, as he now plucks the berrie ...
O p e n i n g s 3 5 spitting in the sherry decanter. It also means not being boorish, arrogant, selfish and conceited. Conventio ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 3 6 allusion is intentional, then it may be that the line is handed to Estragon rather tha ...
O p e n i n g s 3 7 He was the one who gave the orders on the occasion and also the explanations when they were called for. I wa ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 3 8 hand. Indeed, the passage makes him sound reasonably active and well organised, so per ...
O p e n i n g s 3 9 I killed old Phillip Mathers’. ‘Not everybody’ suggests that more than just a few people do, which implies t ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 4 0 it, though this ludicrous possibility cannot be entirely ruled out. Why not just use t ...
O p e n i n g s 4 1 of being verbally overpopulated. Since Ali is a foreign name, we might also assume that we are in some suita ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 4 2 There is scarcely a word in this scurrilous first sentence that is not designed to rai ...
O p e n i n g s 4 3 hope in this dismal situation. As Winston Smith enters the Mansions, a swirl of gritty dust manages to infil ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 4 4 the sound- texture of a passage, or fasten on what seem significant ambiguities, or lo ...
C H A P T E R 2 Character One of the most common ways of overlooking the ‘literariness’ of a play or novel is to treat its chara ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 4 6 map. Instead, he takes himself off to an indeterminate location. There are no such loc ...
C h a r a c t e r 4 7 simply a literary device. Literary figures do not have futures, any more than incarcerated serial killers ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 4 8 The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our ...
C h a r a c t e r 4 9 belongs, in a word, to the rise of modern individualism. Individuals are now defined by what is peculiar t ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 5 0 tolerance about the word ‘character’. It saves you from having to take certain people ...
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