The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Leslie Stephen died in 1904. In that year his children retreated to Wales for a period and then travelled in Italy. Vanessa… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“The Golden Bough captured the imagination of many artists in the early twentieth century. Eliot, certainly, was immersed in it, discussing it… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“If the body becomes a special focus for women's struggle for freedom then what is ingested is a logical initial locus for… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
“It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Chaucer's world in The Canterbury Tales brings together, for the first time, a diversity of characters, social levels, attitudes, and ways of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The beliefs and behaviour of the Restoration reflect the theories of society put forward by Thomas Hobbes in The Leviathan, which was… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Soviet prison camp, but… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
“Extremely self-conscious in its craft, in many ways The Hand of Ethelberta is an exploration of fiction as illusion, which involves parody… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
“In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The study of the form is the betting man's philology, philosophy, science, and literary criticism all rolled into one.” — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“I don’t generally publicly respond to reviews, no matter how wrong-headed or perspicacious I think them. Nine times out of ten, writers’… — China Miéville 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 humanist world following Erasmus, man is at the centre of the universe. Man becomes largely responsible for his own destiny,… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“It might be useful here to say a word about Beckett, as a link between the two stages, and as illustrating the… — Frank Kermode 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
“The range and variety of Chaucer's English did much to establish English as a national language. Chaucer also contributed much to the… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this."… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Christian monks and nuns were, in effect, the guardians of culture, as they were virtually the only people who could read and… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The great majority of interpretations of Apocalypse assume that the End is pretty near. Consequently the historical allegory is always having to… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell , in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Nowhere is the sense of medium felt more strongly, even by the casual reader, than in a story about to end. For… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
