Eagleton, Terry - How to Read Literature
C h a r a c t e r 7 1 unprovocatively. Neither is she a schemer, as the phrase ‘full of petty stratagems’ would suggest. It is n ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 7 2 normal sex- impulses are turned into devilish domestic gins and springes [that is, tra ...
C h a r a c t e r 7 3 like and her own self- loathing. When an adopted child of Jude and Sue hangs their other children and then ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 7 4 not doomed but before its time, as he himself comes to acknowl- edge. Not long after h ...
C h a r a c t e r 7 5 from the complex, self- contradictory nature of sexuality in a social order which puts it to oppressive us ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 7 6 understanding? Besides, are we supposed to empathise with nasty pieces of work like Dr ...
C h a r a c t e r 7 7 convenient for those in power. Empathy elevated sentiment over critical reason. As a Marxist, Brecht also ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 7 8 in order to exploit you more effectively. The Nazis did not kill Jews because they cou ...
C h a r a c t e r 7 9 people on the planet lack the resources to enjoy this experience, and are reluctant to join al- Qa’ida in ...
C H A P T E R 3 Narrative Some narrators in fiction are known as omniscient, meaning that they are assumed to know everything ab ...
N a r r a t i v e 8 1 this actually took place. He is not offering the statement as a propo- sition about the real world. It is ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 8 2 E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, which are spoken by an omnis- cient narrator but wh ...
N a r r a t i v e 8 3 The passage is supposedly spoken by Henderson, the book’s hero. Yet Henderson is a rough- and- ready Ameri ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 8 4 There are unreliable narrators as well as omniscient ones. The governess who narrates ...
N a r r a t i v e 8 5 Swift himself was Anglo- Irish, and as such felt fully at home in neither Ireland nor Britain. One way to ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 8 6 There is thus something peculiarly appropriate about the fact that he so often gazes a ...
N a r r a t i v e 8 7 but it is certainly prudent for both mistress and reader to mistrust his motives. Is he really distraught ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 8 8 Thady commits a number of self- serving blunders and oversights which might well be mo ...
N a r r a t i v e 8 9 itself. Ben Jonson cannot intervene to tell us what to make of Volpone, as Thackeray speaks up in Vanity F ...
H o w t o R e a d L i t e r a t u r e 9 0 If Shylock’s stubborn clinging to the letter of the law seems legalistic, so is the ru ...
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