An Interview with Terry Eagleton

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/7/2012 7:44 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:06 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/an-interview-with-terry-eagleton/
> http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300169430
>
Anyone else tried reading his just released book?  I got kind of put off 
by the time I reached the second chapter where he seems to be trying to 
say that there IS a definition of literature.  The first chapter was 
weird but interesting. The late Medieval controversy between the 
Realists and the Nominalists over the existence of essences.  Terry 
seemed to think that the Duns Scotus middle view on the question serves 
as a kind of a preface to a modern resolution of certain ideas in 
literary theory of a couple decades ago. He pits the High theory 
continentals against the Anglo-Americans, or something of the sort.

Just wondered?

P