“Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.” BelieveSeemsAgeFormI BelieveMiddleIllnessPsychologicalThese DaysMiddle AgesEpidemicsJoggingMasochism Book:Small world: an academic romance Source: Small world: an academic romance
“Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.” FormPoetryLiteratureNaturalNovelCriticsAnalysisIndispensableDeductionsSummaryParaphraseLyric Poetry Book:Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel Source: Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel
