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Literary Theory Quotes

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud’s psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments Picture Quote #1

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory Picture Quote #1

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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In my profession more generally, it’s not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If you were to take a literary theory course, you might think it would be about literature, but it’s really not. It’s about all the various forms of oppression on earth and how we can see them playing out in literary works. And behind all these forms of oppression is a guy Picture Quote #1

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory Picture Quote #1

The ambition of much of today’s literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination Picture Quote #1

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Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind (Literary Theory Quotes) 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 (Literary Theory Quotes) Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud’s psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments. (Literary Theory Quotes) First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory (Literary Theory Quotes) Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure (Literary Theory Quotes) 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 (Literary Theory Quotes) In my profession more generally, it’s not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If you were to take a literary theory course, you might think it would be about literature, but it’s really not. It’s about all the various forms of oppression on earth and how we can see them playing out in literary works. And behind all these forms of oppression is a guy (Literary Theory Quotes) When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory (Literary Theory Quotes) The ambition of much of today’s literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination (Literary Theory Quotes)