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
less literature merely piece verbal
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.
reading reason talk-to-me
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
gertrude married frail
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
hands interesting needs
Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?
teacher students wanted
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
views female point-of-view
Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.
advice my-friends
Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
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.
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.