Literary-theory Quotes

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without ...

Theories about world literature, of which fairy tale is a fundamental part, emphasize the porousness...

Like ´Bluebeard´, the fairy tale of ´Snow White´does not record a single, appalling crime, but testi...

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts...

There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it ha...

Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious...

When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; f...

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilli...

Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of other...

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the author...