Ambiguity Quote by John E. Stoll

“He was more aware than is usually admitted of the Freudian implications in the novel, and the note of ambiguity could have insinuated itself…

— John E. Stoll

“Starting with the hypothesis that all the characters in Women in Love suffer from acute dissociation of sensibility, it becomes clear that psychological reintegration…

— John E. Stoll

“In summing up Lawrence's earlier novels and in anticipating the later, Sons and Lovers is of central importance to the whole Lawrence canon because…

— John E. Stoll

“Lawrence's claims for the vital self and his inability to make it convincing independently of Freudian psychology are serious flaws in the novel, explain…

— John E. Stoll

“In 1925 Woolf began an affair with Sackville-West, who was married to Harold Nicolson, the diplomat and writer, and the development of their close…

— Jane Goldman

“It is already the fashion to diminish Eliot by calling him derivative, the mouthpiece of Pound, and so forth; and yet if one wanted…

— Frank Kermode

“Bloomsbury lost Fry, in 1934, and Lytton Strachey before him, in January 1932, to early deaths. The loss of Strachey was compounded by Carrington’s…

— Jane Goldman

“I tossed up whether I'd see [the critic] or not: I knew too well the pompous phrases of his article, the buried significance he…

— Graham Greene

“By the close of the nineteenth century her studies with her father were being supplemented by tuition in the classics from Dr Warr of…

— Jane Goldman

“Because it is written by a nineteenth-century American, and because of its closeness to the twentieth century, The Portrait of a Lady foregoes Victorian…

— Ian Gregor

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

— Joseph Joubert

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