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literary-theory method term
Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure. Terry Eagleton
literary-theory literary-genre practice
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 .
literary-theory marxism trade
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
literary-theory talking people
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
literary-theory may throwing-up
If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.
literary-theory apathy inevitable
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
literary-theory literature jargon
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
literary-theory people tragedy
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
literary-theory firsts literature
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. Mason Cooley
firsts glory
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself. Charles Spurgeon
firsts first-time virgins
You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time. Diane Lane
firsts steps first-steps
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth. Denis Diderot
firsts steps first-steps
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
firsts records genre
I never excluded any genre on my first record. Deana Carter
firsts strangest-secret
We've got to be of service first before we can expect money. Earl Nightingale
firsts newspapers
[On newspapers:] A first draft of history. Elizabeth Drew
firsts fine
The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better. Elfriede Jelinek
firsts how-to-love know-how
Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place. Deepak Chopra
literature
Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature. Frank Darabont
literature language music-is
Good music is very close to primitive language.
literature make-it-happen happens
You have to make it happen.
literature midnight weak
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. Edgar Allan Poe
literature danger terror
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
literature
The thing we fear we bring to pass. Elbert Hubbard
literature anticipation remember
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
literature shapes degrees
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. Elizabeth Bowen
literature outcomes language
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.