Leslie Fiedler Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by Leslie Fiedler on topics like criticism, sociological, psychological

  • To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

    — Leslie Fiedler on america
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  • Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

    — Leslie Fiedler on criticism
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  • The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

    — Leslie Fiedler on criticism
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  • About Leslie Fiedler

    Name Leslie Fiedler
    Quotes 3 quotations
    Birthday October 16
    Top topics criticism, sociological, psychological, important, lexical

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