Friday, May 11, 2007

Theoretically Speaking

Terry Eagleton comments that hostility to theory means an opposition to other people’s theories and an oblivion to one’s own.

Anthony Thiselton, New Horizons in Hermeneutics (Grand Rapids, Zondervan, 1992) p472 citing Literary Theory: An Introduction (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1983), p.viii

Yes, perhaps, but its easy to feel a sympathy for getting on with “it” rather than talking about “it”, or even talking about talking about “it”.

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