"Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism."

"Deconstruction... insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional."

"Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approac…"

"If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades."

"All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some ob…"

"The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always …"

"Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of …"

"Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a fra…"

"What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attenti…"

"Chaucer was a class traitor Shakespeare hated the mob Donne sold out a bit later Sidney was a nob."