Certain Quote by Paul de Man

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the…

— Naguib Mahfouz

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

— Will Self

“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his…

— George Orwell

All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life."…

— George Steiner

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical…

— John Berger

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at…

— Juan Goytisolo

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due…

— Susan Sontag

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

“Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it…

— Franz Rottensteiner

“Some days, it feels unreasonable to expect that an academic text can work as a form of movement assessment or to support social and…

— Erica R. Meiners

What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object…

— Terry Eagleton