18th century Quote by Paul Fry

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

— Paul Fry

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

— Paul Fry

I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make…

— Paul Fry

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

— Paul Fry

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

— Paul Fry

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…

— Paul Fry

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

— Paul Fry

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

— Paul Fry

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…

— Paul Fry

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…

— Paul Fry

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…

— Paul Fry

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

— Paul Fry