Quotes by Lehman, David

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they c >>

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having >>

Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly >>

Quotations about Literary Criticism

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

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the m >>

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

There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.

Lehman, David