Best Literary Theory Quotes Collection

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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. in the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom. i am, in brief, a libertarian of the most extreme variety, and know of no human right that is one-tenth as valuable as the simple right to utter what seems (at the moment) to be the truth
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The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
Ambition Literary Theory Imagination
I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." i am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of yale university, so i am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible.
Believe Literary Theory Yale
I used to teach at yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. derrida was there. paul de man was there.
Men Literary Theory Yale
What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of new criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. the answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the canadian northrop fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, anatomy of criticism .
Literary Theory Literary Genre Practice
I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that literary theory: an introduction was the subject of a study by a well known u.s. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.
School Literary Theory Facts
If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.
Literary Theory May Throwing Up
It is capitalism, not marxism, that trades in futures.
Literary Theory Marxism Trade
Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.
Literary Theory Method Term
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
Literary Theory Talking People
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
Literary Theory Apathy Inevitable

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