The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“In his 1923 review of James Joyce Ulysses, T. S. Eliot focused on one of his generation's recurrent anxieties--the idea that art… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“A turning point in the criticism of Hardy’s poetry came in his centenary year, in which W. H. Auden (1940) recorded his… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“The setting, concerns, and mood of The Woodlanders are consonant with the Wessex of the earlier novels. There is an element of… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
“Novels begin and end with, consist of, and indeed in one sense are nothing but voices. So reading is learning to listen… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
“What Kant took to be the necessary schemata of reality,' says a modern Freudian, 'are really only the necessary schemata of repression.'… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The period of general neglect of Eliot's poetry was one in which a revolution was occurring in the theory of interpretation. Existentialist,… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“By deciding what is, and is not, allowed to be discussed in a review, by removing discussion of social context, and saying… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“At some very low level, we all share certain fictions about time, and they testify to the continuity of what is called… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth century, with the growth of publishing and with the intellectual climate of the Enlightenment, there was a great demand… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“I hope each of us owns the facts of her or his own life," Hughes wrote in a letter to the Independent… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“In terms of literary history, the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 is seen as a landmark. The volume contains many of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Literature before the Renaissance had frequently offered ideal patterns for living which were dominated by the ethos of the church, but after… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“I stopped typing and started having a conversation about the blog post with my boyfriend. He said he’d liked the part where… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
“The Stetson passage is an allusion to Frazer theory in The Golden Bough that religion originated as agricultural engineering. Through a grotesque… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“I must confess that in all the times I read Madame Bovary, I never noticed the heroine's rainbow eyes. Should I have?… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There may even be a real relation between certain kinds of effectiveness in literature and totalitarianism in politics. But although the fictions… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The decline of sustained close reading of Eliot is also related, ironically, to the emergence of historical scholarship regarding sources and allusions.… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
“But now it seems clear that literary criticism was inherently doomed. Explicitly or otherwise it had based itself on a structure of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
