Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 13:37:54 +0200
From: Hein Viljoen <AFNHMV-AT-puknet.puk.ac.za>
To: marxism-general-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: M-G: Eagleton quote


Could anybody out there please help me trace the following quote?  I
believe it is from Terry Eagleton, and it its on behalve of a student of mine
who is working on the teaching of literature:
 
"The task of the moral technology of Literature is to produce an
historically peculiar form of human subject who is sensitive, receptive,
imaginative and so on ... about nothing in particular ... It is not just
that there are, as we all know, types of literary formalism, it is that
Literature is a formalism. What is important, in this ideology of
Literature, is not so much the object being grasped, which can be any
kind of object you like, but the lived experience of grasping it, on the
part of a particular individual."

I am new on this list - and would appreciate your help a lot.  Email me
pivately if you prefer at the address below.

Hein Viljoen


H.M. Viljoen
Afrikaans en Nederlands/ Afrikaans and Dutch
PUvCHO 
2520 Suid-Afrika  /South Africa
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