Traditional Critical Theory

Famous quotes containing the words traditional, critical and/or theory:

“To minor authors is left the ornamentation of the commonplace: these do not bother about any reinventing of the world; they merely try to squeeze the best they can out of a given order of things, out of traditional patterns of fiction.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“A theory if you hold it hard enough
And long enough gets rated as a creed....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)