Literary Theory Quotes
8 Literary Theory quotes by 8 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
— Mason Cooley
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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: