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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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literary value comes from the institution

Another reason why literary criticism cannot justify its self-limiting to certain works by an appeal to their 'value' is that criticism is part of a literary institution which constitutes these works as valuable in the first place. [...] Shakespeare was not great literature lying conveniently to ha…

—p.202 Literary Theory: An Introduction Conclusion: Political Criticism (194) by Terry Eagleton
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the honest belief that their readings are 'innocent' topic/literary-theory

[...] Some traditional critics would appear to hold that other people subscribe to theories while they prefer to read literature 'straightforwardly'. No theoretical or ideological predilections, in other words, mediate between themselves and the text: to describe George Eliot's later world as one o…

—p.198 Conclusion: Political Criticism (194) by Terry Eagleton
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psychoanalysis as a hermeneutic of suspicion

[...] Psychoanalysis, on the other hand, is in the phrase of one of its interpreters a 'hermeneutic of suspicion': its concern is not just to 'read the text' of the unconscious, but to uncover the processes, the dream-work, by which that text was produced. To do this, it focuses in particular on wh…

—p.182 Psychoanalysis (151) by Terry Eagleton
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it is a questioning of all such power

[...] the conflict between men and women could not have been more real, the ideology of this antagonism involved a metaphysical illusion If it was held in place by the material and psychical benefits which accrued to men from it, it was also held in place by a complex structure of fear, desire, agg…

—p.150 Post-Structuralism (127) by Terry Eagleton
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deconstruction is a political practice

[...] Derrida is clearly out to do more than develop new techniques of reading: deconstruction is for him an ultimately political practice, an attempt to dismantle the logic by which a particular system of thought, and behind that a whole system of political structures and social institutions, ma…

—p.148 Post-Structuralism (127) by Terry Eagleton