“The 1990s to the present: feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, ethics There has never been a better time to study Virginia Woolf. Woolf studies,… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
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“THE METAPHYSICAL POETS Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime (Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress)… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The novel, then, provides a reduction of the world different from that of the treatise. It has to lie. Words, thoughts, patterns… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“Sociologically, politically, psychologically, spiritually, it was never enough for James Baldwin to categorize himself as one thing or the other: not just… — Aberjhani 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
“Two literary figures bridge the gap between the mediaeval age and the Renaissance. They are Sir Thomas Malory, the author of Le… — Ronald Carter 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
“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.” — Kenneth McLeish 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
“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
The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
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“Eliot's own reflections on the primitive mind as a model for nondualistic thinking and on the nature and consequences of different modes… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“The best of the New Critics were masters of close readings. Cleanth Brooks, for example, in 1937 wrote a detailed commentary on… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The language of Shakespeare is the first and lasting affirmation of the great changes that took place in the sixteenth century, leaving… — Ronald Carter 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
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