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I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo — Roman Payne
A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation. — C.S. Lewis
Punctuation was, it is sad to say, invented a very long time ago. Even more frustrating, it has remained with us ever si — Anne Elizabeth Moore, The Manifesti of Radical Literature
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquis — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
Your body expresses yesterday in what it wants today. If you think: yesterday I was, tomorrow I shall be, you are thinki — Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One
Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth — Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
Art is not religion, 'it doesn't even lead to religion.' But in the time of distress which is ours, the time when the go — Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature
Like ´Bluebeard´, the fairy tale of ´Snow White´does not record a single, appalling crime, but testifies to a structural — Marina Warner, Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
Theories about world literature, of which fairy tale is a fundamental part, emphasize the porousness of borders, geograp — Marina Warner, Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to tell to — Roman Payne
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief. — Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existenc — Tzvetan Todorov
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination. — Charles Simic, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs
The literary text seems like "a fortified medieval town –foreigners and outsiders are repelled, or allowed in only after — Jeremy Hawthorn, Unlocking the Text: Fundamental Issues in Literary Theory
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others — Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die. — Roland Barthes, Writing Degree Zero
Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be — Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
To the jaded eye, all vampires seem alike, but they are wonderful in their versatility. Some come to life in moonlight, — Nina Auerbach
The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy — C.S. Lewis
There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it has been there from th — Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction