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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.

Gary Saul Morson

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.

Gary Saul Morson

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.

Gary Saul Morson

Gary Saul Morson

Gary Saul Morson

Born: 1948 (age 76)

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:

Mikhail Bakhtin (1990)
Narrative and Freedom (1994)
Boundaries of Genre (1981)

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