Eagleton, Terry - How to Read Literature
C h a r a c t e r 5 1 Roguery is more alluring than respectability. Once the Victorian middle classes had defined normality as t ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 5 2 interrelating. All of this is hilariously prefigured in Laurence Sterne’s great eighte ...
C h a r a c t e r 5 3 herself. As long as there are bigamously minded Rochesters around, as well as religious fanatics like St J ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 5 4 their welfare, they would probably sink without trace before the end of the first chap ...
C h a r a c t e r 5 5 It is true that individuals combine these shared qualities in very different ways, which is part of what m ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 5 6 His was one of those composite pieces of headgear in which you might trace features of ...
C h a r a c t e r 5 7 encountered before, they would be unintelligible. A completely original literary figure would slip through ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 5 8 more exciting than sex. This is a sign of how much romanticism, with its passion for t ...
C h a r a c t e r 5 9 precisely what football games are about should not distract us from this point. It is not that Aristotle t ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 6 0 actions have an active influence on our inner lives. Performing virtuous acts helps us ...
C h a r a c t e r 6 1 Because men and women are more than mere functions of their environments, they can come to believe that th ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 6 2 out of a self- image. It is one of his few points of resemblance to Ernest Hemingway, ...
C h a r a c t e r 6 3 As one critic wryly comments, it is a magnificent coup de théâtre. This man can even turn the act of stabb ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 6 4 greater than themselves, and shaped by processes of which they may be only fitfully co ...
C h a r a c t e r 6 5 today, the Gospel writers might well find themselves handed a shamefully low grade. The same relative indi ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 6 6 Modernism, by contrast, pitches the whole concept of identity into crisis. Stephen Ded ...
C h a r a c t e r 6 7 If the self is bound up with its changing experiences, then it no longer has the unity and consistency of ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 6 8 the tip of the iceberg of the self. The selfhood which Lawrence explores lies somewher ...
C h a r a c t e r 6 9 Land and Four Quartets, but at some subliminal level you are under- standing them all the time. Among othe ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 7 0 * We may now look at a particular literary character in rather more detail. Sue Brid ...
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