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«The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.»
Author: Clive James
(Critic)
| Keywords:
artistic, art critic, contemplating, critic, detach, detaching, literary, Literary Art, literary critic, literary work, specific, The Critic, work of art
«No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras.»
Author: Edmund Wilson
| Keywords:
all but, biographical, eras, first rate, historical, Histories, literary, literary criticism, literary work, point of view, Political history, psychological, reflected, scrutinize, scrutinized, scrutinizing, searchingly, second rate, texts
«Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.»
Author: Bertolt Brecht
| Keywords:
conditioned, examples, factories, industrial, likewise, literary, literary work, made use of, realist, realists, taken over, The Realist, varying, widely, working class
«DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cramp, cramped, cramping, cramps, device, dictionary, inelastic, literary, literary device, literary work, malevolent
«Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
analyzing, art critic, botanical, classify, critic, critical, criticizing, ignores, imitation, impertinence, in the first place, jargon, jargon of, literary, Literary Art, literary critic, literary criticism, literary work, mostly, pseudoscientific, reasoned, The Critic, touchstone, touchstones, twaddle, twiddle, twiddling, work of art
«I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
amusements, by me, divining, frivolous, ingredients, literary, literary work, nourish, past life, reserve, stored up, tenderness, The Plant
«I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
around, defendant, defendants, lawsuit, lawsuits, literary, literary work, looking, meditated, meditating, rest, this year, year
«No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
accompanied, literary critic, literary criticism, literary work, panegyric, prejudiced, premature, publishes, The Verdict
«There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion, showing from various causes»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
executed, Introduction to, literary work, stating
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