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"I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style."

Aragon, Louis · Literary Criticism · 0 fans >>
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"Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby."

Benjamin, Walter · Literary Criticism · 0 fans >>
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"We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people."

Carlyle, Thomas · Literary Criticism · 0 fans >>
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"There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo · Literary Criticism · 2 fans >>
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"Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism."

Fiedler, Leslie · Literary Criticism · 0 fans >>
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"The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic."

Fiedler, Leslie · Literary Criticism · 0 fans >>
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"A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas."

Frye, Northrop · Literary Criticism · 0 fans >>
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"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."

Galbraith, John Kenneth · Literary Criticism · 0 fans >>
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"When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right."

Guinon, Albert · Literary Criticism · 0 fans >>
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"You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple."

Hemingway, Ernest · Literary Criticism · 3 fans >>
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