Literary Theory Quotes

8 Literary Theory quotes by 8 unique authors

• Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk… — Geoff Nicholson
• Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers… — Gore Vidal
• Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own… — Nancy Pearcey
• I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there. — Harry Frankfurt
• In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If you were to… — Jonathan Gottschall
• I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings… — Lev Grossman
• First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. — Mason Cooley
• When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. — Ira Glass

Who Wrote These Literary Theory Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Literary Theory Quotes as follows:

• 1 Literary Theory Quote by Nancy Pearcey
• 1 Literary Theory Quote by Mason Cooley
• 1 Literary Theory Quote by Lev Grossman
• 1 Literary Theory Quote by Jonathan Gottschall
• 1 Literary Theory Quote by Ira Glass
• 1 Literary Theory Quote by Harry Frankfurt
• 1 Literary Theory Quote by Gore Vidal
• 1 Literary Theory Quote by Geoff Nicholson