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Paul Fry Quotes

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century Picture Quote #1

The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties Picture Quote #1

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power Picture Quote #1

Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive Picture Quote #1

Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue Picture Quote #1

The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas Picture Quote #1

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I’m a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind Picture Quote #1

I don’t think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory’s function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even a little sheepish, about its ex cathedra pronouncements Picture Quote #1

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Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century (Paul Fry Quotes) The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties (Paul Fry Quotes) Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power (Paul Fry Quotes) Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive (Paul Fry Quotes) Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue (Paul Fry Quotes) The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas (Paul Fry Quotes) I’m a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind (Paul Fry Quotes) I don’t think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory’s function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even a little sheepish, about its ex cathedra pronouncements (Paul Fry Quotes)