Read the Eagleton pages, and page 48 talks about the contrast between phenomenology and philosophy which I thought was amusing, because phenomenology is a philosophy. I understand what Eagleton is conveying though, and I feel it really applies to this class because were are going to be learning about ways to further analyze literature, which brings to mind the question what are these concepts were are learning but intangible, "abstract and unreal" devices? It's just really cool, i think anyway, that all these theories that we base these classes and textbooks on are as Eagleton described, that some other guy described, just thoughts that we hold on to to try and make sense of things that were written by real people like us who have their very own meanings and intentions and here we have created this whole english/literature world around other peoples thoughts and that's all any of this is just thoughts.
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