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“The ruinous deeds of the ravaging foe (Beowulf) The best-known long text in Old English is the epic poem Beowulf. Beowulf himself… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The 1980s witnessed radical advances in the theorisation of the study of literature in the universities. It had begun in France in… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
“I often have the feeling that even at the best of times literary criticism is fraudulent, since in the absence of any… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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“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
“Life, of course, never gets anyone's entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, draws us. As sleep is necessary to our… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
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“The double consequence of artifice--to project sentience out onto the made world and in turn to make sentience itself into a complex… — Anonymous 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
“The sin of Book I is at first sight more obscure, but it is particularly significant. We have seen that there appear… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
“One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
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“He was more aware than is usually admitted of the Freudian implications in the novel, and the note of ambiguity could have… — John E. Stoll Copy Share Image
“The most interesting inconsistency in thought is connected with the Bower of Bliss. This passage--the twelfth canto of the second Book--is probably… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
“While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
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