Terry Eagleton on hybridity and pomo

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Thu Jun 6 15:36:04 PDT 2002


http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,728520,00.html

"Groom's rather predictably provocative thesis is that the forged work is actually the truest one - a case which, in rehearsing a familiar move in deconstructive theory (the deviant is the measure of the normative), is itself a compound of the derivative and the original. Forgery is creative rather than contemptible, rather in the way that a sign, according to Umberto Eco, is anything you can use to lie with. Since there can be no talk of authenticity without the concept of a fake, the phoney is the true ground of great art."



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