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Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble found art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be displayed in an art museum or to a weapon moved from an anthropological to an artistic display.

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The presenter of found art, whether material or verbal, has become a sort of artist. He has not made the object, but he has made it as art.

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People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.

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Gary Saul Morson

Gary Saul Morson

Born: 1948 (age 77)
Bio: Gary Saul Morson is an American literary critic and Slavist. He is Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University.
Known for:
  1. Mikhail Bakhtin (1990)
  2. Narrative and Freedom (1994)
  3. Boundaries of Genre (1981)

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