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Raymond Williams on Labour and culture

Responding to an enquiry about his cultural perspec­tives in the years immediately after the Second World War, Williams comments:

I thought that the Labour government had a choice: either for reconstruction of the cultural field in capitalist terms, or for funding institutions of popular educa…

—p.110 The Function of Criticism by Terry Eagleton
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apostate

political apostasy

on Wordsworth

—p.114 by Terry Eagleton
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minatory

a far more minatory shadow

—p.101 by Terry Eagleton
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mise-en-abyme

enraptured by a jouissance or mise-en-abyme which promises to shatter

—p.99 by Terry Eagleton
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hypostatisation

Deconstruction rescues the heterogeneity of the subject from its hypostatization, but only at the cost of liquidating the subjective agency

a doozy of a sentence

—p.99 by Terry Eagleton
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