Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Nancy Pearcey

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.

Terry Eagleton

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Terry Eagleton

What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .

Terry Eagleton

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Terry Eagleton

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

Terry Eagleton

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.

Terry Eagleton

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Karen Armstrong

He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts 'but to experience certain emotions and to be put in a certain disposition.' Hence his famous literary theory that tragedy effected a purification (katharsis) of the emotions of terror and pity that amounted to an experience of rebirth.

C. S. Lewis

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did.

C. S. Lewis

If you thirst you may drink.

C. S. Lewis

I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be...

Agnes Smedley

But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

Aaron Sorkin

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

Al Bagnoli

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.

Alan Turing

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...

Alan Shepard

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

Charlotte Bronte

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Mike Shannon

The right-hander is throwing up in the bullpen.