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literary-theory firsts literature
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. Mason Cooley
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 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 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
apathy care true-or-false
Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better. Charles Spurgeon
apathy enough said
I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much. Kurt Vonnegut
apathy claim credits failure sums vast whether
Whether through apathy or confusion, the failure to claim these credits is just one way we're needlessly gifting vast sums to the taxman each year. David Elms
apathy holding incentive investor move people until willing
There's a lot of investor apathy out there right now, and I don't see any incentive for people to move until the payrolls report. After that, people who are holding out may be willing to get back in.
apathy assert counter experience high minds national press shock
I wanted to counter apathy and blandness. I wanted to shock homogenized minds with the experience of writing at high voltage. I wanted the press to assert relentlessly literature's importance. I wanted the press to be a national press and of national importance.
apathy committed constantly exception great hostile naturally soviet ten unique zone
The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency. J. Anthony Lukas
apathy needs undervalued
Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it. Alafair Burke
apathy vain accused
I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy. Bret Easton Ellis
apathy indifference servant
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve. Adlai Stevenson
inevitable automobile
The electrification of the automobile is inevitable. Bob Lutz
inevitable path software
It's the inevitable path of all software engineering, Grady Booch
inevitable lived next
There must have been something inevitable about it because we got it done. I lived with (the book) for 20 years when I didn't write (the adaptation), and when I did write it, I lived with it for the next 10, 12 years. Robert Towne
inevitable
Something like this is probably inevitable for most journals.
inevitable resent
No one of intelligence resents the inevitable. Arthur C. Clarke
inevitable elusive
Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive. Steven Spielberg
inevitable taxes
Death and taxes are inevitable. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
inevitable campaigning
Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true. Richard Stallman
inevitable-change inevitable change-is-inevitable
Change is inevitable and always good in one sense or the other. Michael Jackson