Eagleton, Terry - How to Read Literature

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Pope, Alexander 55, 58, 176, 179
postmodernism 105
and originality 180
prejudice see bias and narrative
Price, Fanny (character) see Austen,
Mansfield Park
primitivism and progress in modernist
novel 109–10
private and public spheres 64, 153–4
problem- solving and realist novel 104–5
progress and modernist disillusion
109–10
propriety as influence 34–5
Proust, Marcel 125, 183
psychoanalytical thought 142
see also Freud, Sigmund
psychology and character
lack of interest in 64–5
and modernist works 66, 67–8
public and private spheres 64, 153–4

quality of literature see value
questions
and interpretation 128–34
in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
15–16
and opening of Flann O’Brien’s Third
Policeman 39–40

Rankin, Ian 115
readers
author’s address to 23–4, 88
author’s attitude and interpretation
148–9
and creation of meaning 124–5, 146
reception of literary work over time
59, 146, 184–6, 206
realist literature
and acknowledgement of reader 24
and character 63–4, 65, 75
illusion of reality 122, 127
impossibility of narrating reality
111–14
and language 192–3
and literary value 181–2, 194–5
narrative and reward of virtue 101–2,
103

problem- solving approach 104–5

transparent language and meaning

125–6, 131

reality and fiction

and address to reader 24–5

audience of spell of the play 6–7

and character 45–8, 63–4

elusiveness of truth 110–11,

127–8

everyday life and narrative 99–100

fantasy in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter

novels 169–70

fiction of happy endings 102, 103,

104, 161

impossibility of narrating reality

111–14

and language 126, 127–8

modernist view of world 105–7

narrator’s authority 80–1, 83

and opportunity 78–9

real- life figures in fiction 41

truth and fiction writing 121–3

and ways of reading 2–3

reception of literary work over time 59,

146, 184–6, 206

Rendell, Ruth 115

rhythm 10, 20–1, 204

see also metre

Richardson, Samuel

Clarissa 53, 94, 123, 142

character of Clarissa 53, 94

Pamela 52, 53

rogues and villains

in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels

171–2

as interesting characters 50–1, 165

and just deserts 102

Romanticism 57–8, 78, 135

and originality 175, 177–8, 181

Rowling, J.K.

Harry Potter novels 168–74

fantasy and reality in 169–70

theme of good and evil in 170–1

St John’s Gospel, opening lines 19–21

satire see under Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

Sayers, Dorothy L. 115