A literary woman\\’s best
A literary woman’s best critic is her husband. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Literary Criticism
So-called \\\”natural language\\\” is
So-called \”natural language\” is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great … Read more
Certainly professionally, yes [I
Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a historian that I work, although text criticism and literary criticism are very much a part of my interests. Frank Moore Cross
The literary wiseacres prognosticate
The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public’s mind. Fannie Hurst
I’m never a fan
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. Dave Eggers
Literary criticism can be
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising. D. H. Lawrence
The point of literary
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. Clifford Geertz
My literary criticism has
My literary criticism has become less specifically academic. I was really writing literary history in The New Poetic, but my general practice of writing literary criticism is pretty much what it always has been. And there has always been a strong connection between being a writer – I feel as though I know what it … Read more
The visual is sorely
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. Camille Paglia
Historical investigation and literary
Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages. Bill Vaughan