Thursday, June 23, 2005
“The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.”
- Ihab Hassan (b. 1925), American critic: “The Re-Vision of Literature’, published in “New Literary History”, autumn 1976, reprinted in “The Right Promethean Fire”, 1980.
“The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.”
- John King Fairbank (1907 – 1991), American historian and educator: quoted in “The Observer” (London), May 4, 1975.
“Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second guessing in the “New York Review of Books.”
- John Updike (b. 1932), American author and critic: “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, 1989.
- Ihab Hassan (b. 1925), American critic: “The Re-Vision of Literature’, published in “New Literary History”, autumn 1976, reprinted in “The Right Promethean Fire”, 1980.
“The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.”
- John King Fairbank (1907 – 1991), American historian and educator: quoted in “The Observer” (London), May 4, 1975.
“Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second guessing in the “New York Review of Books.”
- John Updike (b. 1932), American author and critic: “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, 1989.
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