Literary Criticism Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

• In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking… — George Orwell
• The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love,… — Camille Paglia
• The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in… — H. L. Mencken
• The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. — Clifford Geertz
• There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. — Anne Stevenson
• Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of… — Rainer Maria Rilke
• Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. — George Steiner
• Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a… — John Kenneth Galbraith
• The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature. — Umberto Eco
• Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one… — Jeffrey Eugenides
• Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor… — Kurt Vonnegut
• In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds… — Stephen King
• In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. — John Steinbeck
• I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity — Alison Bechdel
• Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this… — Tristram Stuart
• Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can… — DH Lawrence

Who Wrote These Literary Criticism Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 16 Literary Criticism Quotes as follows:

• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by George Orwell
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by Camille Paglia
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by Clifford Geertz
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by Anne Stevenson
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by George Steiner
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by Umberto Eco
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by Stephen King
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by John Steinbeck
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by Alison Bechdel
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by Tristram Stuart
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by DH Lawrence
• 1 Literary Criticism Quote by Kurt Vonnegut