Leslie Fiedler
Leslie Fiedler
Leslie Aaron Fiedlerwas an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American literature. His most cited work is Love and Death in the American Novel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth8 March 1917
CountryUnited States of America
historical important criticism
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
depressing culture-religion criticism
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.
fiction method certain
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
camille heard
I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.
sex thinking literature
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
i-can one-thing ifs
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.
telling-the-truth assignments
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
novelists
One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.
moving years space
When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.
comic stills
Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
looks pages lasts
It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.
august light rooms
Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
funny thinking patterns
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
lasts facts poet
I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.