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“I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make no claim.”

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The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having…

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The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there…

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I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may well be…

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Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself…

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Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism…

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I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.

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I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.

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Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any of our…

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The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics…

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I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even a little…

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Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition…

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I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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