Quotes by Fiedler, Leslie

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its l >>

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is prec >>

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least >>

Quotations about Literary Criticism

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a ba >>

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeabl >>

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very acade >>

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

Fiedler, Leslie