Literary Theory

🇫🇷Roland Barthes

semiotic literary criticism

Structuralism

1915–1980

"Roland Barthes and Photography by Ron Burnett"

🇺🇸Joseph Campbell

Literature

1904–1987

"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about."

🇬🇧Terry Eagleton

Literature

New Left

b. 1943

"The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present."

"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round."

🇨🇦Northrop Frye

Literature

1912–1991

"The real Bible is a sealed book, an apocryphon, a book not to be opened until its time has come."

🇺🇸Harold Bloom

Literature

Romanticism

1930–2019

"Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates."

🇺🇸Judith Butler

Philosophy

Post-structuralism

b. 1956

"I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. I was never against the category of men."