“A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.” MenCoursesDealsCriticismGreenContemporaryBrownCheeseSherry Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.” ThinkingDealsSilenceMorningCriticismCritics Author:Mack Brown
“Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.” MenHas BeensStillsBookTodayCultureForgetDealsMassTraditionCriticismLonelySeriesCrowdsPlentyExceptionOur SocietyStringsConformityMediocrityConspiracyElitesVolumeStereotypeSymptomsDissentIndicationSellersOrganizationalBest SellersMass CultureEpithet Author:Kenneth Rexroth
“What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .” LiteratureSocialAnswersDealsAttentionPracticeObjectsTheoryNeededShapesCriticismGenreAestheticBentSystematicAnatomyLiterary TheoryLiterary Genre Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.” MaySufferingDealsBehindsAirSceneConversationCriticismCongressOppositionDisagreeOur RelationshipChamberPartisansCementBehind The ScenesAcrimony Author:Kay Bailey Hutchison
“Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole once said that "life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy to the man who feels." Comedy is negative; it is a criticism of limitations and an unwillingness to accept them. Tragedy is positive; it is an uncritical acceptance of the positive content of that which is delimited. Since comedy deals with the limitations of actual situations and tragedy with their positive content, comedy must ridicule and tragedy must endorse.” ThinkingMenFeelsSaidLife IsValuesDealsSituationAcceptingComedyAcceptanceEmotionalHe ManIntellectualNegativeCriticismLogicTragedyAffairLimitationRidicule Author:James Kern Feibleman
“Women get scrutinized all the time for the way they look. So if I can learn to deal with that, then I do believe I can learn to deal with people's criticisms of my film choices.” PeopleIfsWayBelieveLooksI CanFilmChoicesDealsCriticism Author:Mila Kunis
“So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.” PurposeLanguageNaturalDealsSituationWonderfulActivityJokesCriticismMathematicsAriseProgrammingCheatMaking LoveRudeLegislationInadequateTheoristsLiterary CriticismIntricacyArbitration Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“I had read the criticisms of me and my movies and they were discerning. They said that Crawford needs a new deal, and they asked if I was doomed to explore forever the emotional misfortunes of the super-sexed modern young woman. And so, to break away from the pattern, I wanted to do "The Gorgeous Hussy". Selznick laughed at me. 'You can't do a costume picture. You're too modern.' But I begged and begged and begged, and so they let me do it. I was totally miscast.” IfsNeedsSaidWantedYoungDealsBreakForeverModernEmotionalCriticismLet MePatternsMisfortunesLaughedYoung WomenDoomedThey SaidCostumesGorgeousDiscerningNew DealHussies Author:Joan Crawford