“The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.” — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
“The formerly absolute distinction between time and eternity in Christian thought--between nunc movens with its beginning and end, and nunc stans, the… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless… — Ernest Hemingway 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
“I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend.… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
“For more than half a century I have tried to confront greatness directly, hardly a fashionable stance, but I see no other… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“At the end of the 1400s, the world changed. Two key dates can mark the beginning of modern times. In 1485, the… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“What, then, can Shakespearean tragedy, on this brief view, tell us about human time in an eternal world? It offers imagery of… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis… — Michiko Kakutani 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
“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
“There are numerous biographies of Woolf. Biography has been highly influential in shaping the reception ofWoolf ’s work, and her life has… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“The notion of literature as only one of several avenues to a single type of propositional knowledge is, of course, hardly the… — Peter Swirski Copy Share Image
“A sixteenth-century poet, especially one who knew that he ought to be a curious and universal scholar, would possess some notions, perhaps… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The Restoration did not so much restore as replace. In restoring the monarchy with King Charles II, it replaced Cromwell's Commonwealth and… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Most critics agree with the seventeenth-century printer who gave them to the world, that the Mutabilitie Cantos seem to be part of… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
“Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.” — Erica Jong 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
“Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“In the nouveau roman of Robbe-Grillet there is an attempt at a more or less Copernican change in the relation between the… — 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
“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
“...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead.” — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“The aim I have set before me in this book is to give back to English readers the understanding of and delight… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
