Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in hi
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In movies about women, all important historical and natural events are translated into the terms of a woman's daily life. World Wa
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It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excluded
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A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.
Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
We ignore thriller writers at our peril. Their genre is the political condition. They massage our dreams and magnify our nightmare
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-mi
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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise--nobody n
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Popular cinema cooperates with desire for reverie rather than opposing it. This is why mass-audience movies are so conscious of ge
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in all
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