We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The discords of our experience--delight in change, fear of change; the death of the individual and the survival of the species, the… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth century, with the growth of publishing and with the intellectual climate of the Enlightenment, there was a great demand… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Bohr is really doing what the Stoic allegorists did to close the gap between their world and Homer's, or what St. Augustine… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“One of the first books of travel, giving European readers some insight into the unfamiliar world of the Orient, was published in… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I intend Deaths in Venice to contribute both to literary criticism and to philosophy. But it's not "strict philosophy" in the sense… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“You sometimes hear people say, with a certain pride in their clerical resistance to the myth, that the nineteenth century really ended… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The concept of an author, the single creative person who gives the text 'authority', only comes later in this period. Most Old… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The 1980s: feminism, postmodernism, sexual/textual politics While it might be tempting to generalise that Woolf ’s writing was being discussed almost in… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“In his Preface to the 1892 edition of Tess of the d’Urbervilles Hardy warns the reader that ‘a novel is an impression,… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“Some very eminent critics writing in the decades immediately after the novel's publication felt that Eliot failed to maintain sufficient critical distance… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
“For Aristotle the literary plot was analogous to the plot of the world in that both were eductions from the potency of… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“School of Resentment is a term coined by critic Harold Bloom to describe related schools of literary criticism which have gained prominence… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“If a writer has to find a rhythm if his novel is to come 'right', a rhythm which he may well discover… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Apocalypse is a part of the modern Absurd. This is testimony to its vitality, a vitality dependent upon its truth to the… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“A few months ago, I was sitting morosely at my desk, wondering why I had ever agreed to review Barbara Bush: A… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Woolf drew on her memories of her holidays in Cornwall for To the Lighthouse, which was conceived in part as an elegy… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“There is a remarkable degree of consistency in the way mediaeval literature affirms humanity. With all its faults, humanity emerges as more… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“When we discuss a novel it is only partially to hear another person's 'view', it is much more to find out what… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Old English poetry also contained a wide range of conventional poetic diction, many of the words being created to allow alliterative patterns… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Reading Virginia Woolf will change your life, may even save it. If you want to make sense of modern life, the works… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“Woolf ’s control over the production of her own work is a significant factor in her genesis as a writer. The Hogarth… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“Reading Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë after Jane Eyre is a curious experience. The subject of the biography is recognisably the… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Few poets better convey the uneasy transition from Victorianism to Modernism than Thomas Hardy. His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“t this point I would like to return to the question of the plot movement and the different narrative levels of the… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to… — Russell A. Peck Copy Share Image
“Whether he chooses a 'scholarly' or a 'popular' edition the modern reader is likely to have his judgement influenced in advance. Almost… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Novels begin and end with, consist of, and indeed in one sense are nothing but voices. So reading is learning to listen… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, French culture and language interacted with native English culture for several generations after the Norman Conquest. A common… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Old English poetry is characterised by a number of poetic tropes which enable a writer to describe things indirectly and which require… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Recognising such dimensions implicit to the reading experience can distract from the immediacy of our response; it can substitute literary archaeology for… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“At some very low level, we all share certain fictions about time, and they testify to the continuity of what is called… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Too often critics have taken as the sole and crucial matter of fantasy the preoccupation of Tolkien, the quest for a remedy… — Roz Kaveney Copy Share Image
“IT is worth remembering that the rise of what we call literary fiction happened at a time when the revealed, authenticated account… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The Romantic journey was usually a solitary one. Although the Romantic poets were closely connected with one another, and some collaborated in… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
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