Literary Theories

Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or theories:

    Carlyle, to adopt his own classification, is himself the hero as literary man.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.
    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)