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Quotation by Terry Eagleton
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Guardian (London, Oct. 27, 1992)"Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism" (1985)"Frère Jacques: The Politics of Deconstruction" Against the Grain (1984, repr.1986)Guardian (London, October 27, 1992)Ideology (1991)Related Subjects
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All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.
Terry Eagleton (b. 1943), British critic. "The Critic as Clown," ch. 10, Against the Grain (1986).
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