"What is literature? ... but in fact it has not seemed to matter very much. ... There appear to be two main reasons. First, since theory itself intermingles ideas from philosophy, linguistics, history, political theory, and psychoanalysis, why should theorists worry about whether the texts they're re"
"For twenty-five centuries people have written works that we call literature today, but the modern sense of literature is scarcely two centuries old. ... The modern Western sense of literature as imaginative writing can be traced to the German Romantic theorists of the late eighteenth century ... Pri"