The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm… — Paul Fry Betrayed Copy Share Image
The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting… — Paul Fry Accepting Copy Share Image
I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that… — Paul Fry Books Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may… — Paul Fry Contrary Copy Share Image
Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and… — Paul Fry Concerned Copy Share Image
Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks… — Paul Fry 20th century Copy Share Image
I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters. — Paul Fry Creativity Copy Share Image
I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind. — Paul Fry Authority Copy Share Image
Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any… — Paul Fry Complexity Copy Share Image
The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the… — Paul Fry Change Copy Share Image
I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even… — Paul Fry Add Copy Share Image
Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in… — Paul Fry Accepting Copy Share Image
I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He… — Paul Fry Authority Copy Share Image
Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power. — Paul Fry Insight Copy Share Image
“It might be worth pausing over the variety of ways in which we can think of signs in language, all of which… — Paul Fry Communication Copy Share Image
The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company… — Paul Fry Coins Copy Share Image
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th… — Paul Fry 18th century Copy Share Image
