Eagleton, T., 2013, How to Read Literature, Yale University Press, New Haven and London
- Author : Eagleton, T.
- Year : 2013
- Title English : How to Read Literature
- Publisher : Yale University Press
- Publisher's Location : New Haven and London
- ISBN : 978-0-300-19096-0
- Pages : 216
- Comments : pp. 54-55 “...human beings are not fundamentally all that different from each other, a truth postmodernists are reluctant to concede. We share an enormous amount in common, simply by virtue of being human... “Literary critics may think of individuals as incomparable, but sociologists beg to differ. If most human beings were delightfully unpredictable, sociologists would be out of a job. They take no interest in the individual, any more than Stalinists do. Instead they investigate shared patterns of behaviour. It is a sociological truth that the lines at supermarket checkouts are always roughly the same length, since human beings are alike in their reluctance to spend too much time on tedious, relatively trivial tasks such as paying for their groceries.”