Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism to care about originality and suppose with a sometimes naive spontaneity that it's all that matters. — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century. — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may well be… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters. — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any of our… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even a little… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
