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Literary Criticism Quotes

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed me to write, more or less anything Picture Quote #1

I’m never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile Picture Quote #1

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe’s Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest Picture Quote #1

A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity Picture Quote #1

In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors Picture Quote #1

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, ‘Middlesex.’ Picture Quote #1

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$The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images Picture Quote #1$

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity Picture Quote #1

Our reaction to advertising is really a form of literary criticism Picture Quote #1

Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics Picture Quote #1

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae Picture Quote #1

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary Picture Quote #1

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Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism Picture Quote #1

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature Picture Quote #1

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself Picture Quote #1

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade Picture Quote #1

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning Picture Quote #1

The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud Picture Quote #1

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Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising Picture Quote #1

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say Picture Quote #1

Poststructuralism.... is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning Picture Quote #1

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic Picture Quote #1

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive Picture Quote #1

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom Picture Quote #1

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When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed me to write, more or less anything. (Literary Criticism Quotes) I’m never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile (Literary Criticism Quotes) Whoever could properly characterize Goethe’s Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest (Literary Criticism Quotes) A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity (Literary Criticism Quotes) In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors (Literary Criticism Quotes) Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, ‘Middlesex.’ (Literary Criticism Quotes) The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images (Literary Criticism Quotes) I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity (Literary Criticism Quotes) Our reaction to advertising is really a form of literary criticism (Literary Criticism Quotes) Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics (Literary Criticism Quotes) Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae (Literary Criticism Quotes) Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary (Literary Criticism Quotes) Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism (Literary Criticism Quotes) The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature (Literary Criticism Quotes) In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself (Literary Criticism Quotes) Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade (Literary Criticism Quotes) In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning (Literary Criticism Quotes) The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud (Literary Criticism Quotes) Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising (Literary Criticism Quotes) When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say (Literary Criticism Quotes) Poststructuralism.... is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning (Literary Criticism Quotes) There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic (Literary Criticism Quotes) The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive (Literary Criticism Quotes) Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom (Literary Criticism Quotes)