God Chose What Is Weakest In The

Literature Transforms And Intensifies Ordinary Language, Deviates Systematically From Everyday Speech. If You Approach Me At A Bus Stop And Murmur Thou Still Unravished Bride Of Quietness, Then I Am Instantly Aware That I Am In The Presence Of The Literary.

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 .

Man Eternally Tries To Get Back To An Organic Past That Has Slipped Just Beyond His Reach.

All Desire Springs From A Lack, Which It Strives Continually To Fill.

After All, If You Do Not Resist The Apparently Inevitable, You Will Never Know How Inevitable The Inevitable Was.