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.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Literature, Jargon, Sake

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

  Charles Simic

  Ambition, Imagination, Literature

  Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.63, Copper Canyon Press

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

  Terry Eagleton

  Method, Term, Doomed

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.172, John Wiley & Sons

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• Literary theories will not make a writer write.

  Allen Wier

  Writing, Theory

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

  Terry Eagleton

  May, Throwing Up, Mass

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.21, John Wiley & Sons

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• Al fin y al cabo, si no te resistes a lo aparentemente inevitable, nunca sabrás hasta qué punto lo inevitable era inevitable.

  Terry Eagleton

  Apathy, Inevitable, Know How

  "Por qué Marx tenía razón". Libro de Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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

  Terry Eagleton

  Marxism, Trade, Capitalism

  "Por qué Marx tenía razón". Libro de Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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

  Terry Eagleton

  Talking, People, Trouble

  "Por qué Marx tenía razón". Libro de Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Firsts, Theory

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• 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

  Literary Genre, Practice, Criticism

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.79, John Wiley & Sons

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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.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Writing, Careers

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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• Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place...and it implies relations among differentiated positions.' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another.

  Geoff Nicholson

  Writing, Thinking, Space

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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.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Thinking, Roots, Evil

  "Una charla con el salvaje profesor de inglés". Entrevista con Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. 5 de marzo de 2015.

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• As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom. I am, in brief, a libertarian of the most extreme variety, and know of no human right that is one-tenth as valuable as the simple right to utter what seems (at the moment) to be the truth

  H. L. Mencken

  Simple, Ideas, Libertarian

  H. L. Mencken (2000). “H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism”, p.24, Regnery Publishing

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• 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.

  Karen Armstrong

  People, Tragedy, Facts

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• Soy alguien que valora la verdad, la verdad real por oposición a la "veracidad". También soy alguien que se ha formado en deconstrucción en el departamento de teoría literaria de la Universidad de Yale, así que soy alguien que está tentado de creer que no hay verdad absoluta posible.

  John Hodgman

  Believe, Yale, Truth Is

  Entrevista con Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. 21 de octubre de 2008.

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• Cuando estaba en la universidad leí mucha teoría literaria, especialmente sobre novelas, y el mejor libro que leí sobre finales fue "Reading for the Plot", de Peter Brooks. '

  Lev Grossman

  Lectura, Libro, Escuela

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• No sé si alegrarme o indignarme por el hecho de que Teoría literaria: An Introduction haya sido objeto de un estudio por parte de una conocida escuela de negocios estadounidense, intrigada por descubrir cómo un texto académico podía convertirse en un best-seller.

  Terry Eagleton

  School, Facts, Study

  Terry Eagleton (2011). "Teoría literaria: An Introduction", p.10, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Men, Yale, Derrida

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