Activity Quote by Alison Bechdel

I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.

— Robert Christgau

Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls…

— Tristram Stuart

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To…

— Joanne Harris

I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer unorthodox ways…

— Rob Nixon

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it, is in the first place 'literary', which is to say personal and passionate. It is not…

— Harold Bloom

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for…

— Wole Soyinka

“Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don't try it. You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University.…

— Oscar Wilde

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

— Joseph Joubert

I think as a consequence of that, there is also a fair amount of uncertainty about engaging in political activity that would be immediately…

— Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many…

— Bill Vaughan