Leslie Fiedler Quotes

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The existence of overt homosexuality threatens to compromise an essential aspect of American sentimental life: the camaraderie of the locker room and ball park, the good fellowship of the poker game and fishing trip, a kind of passionless passion, at once gross and delicate, homoerotic in the boy's sense, possessing an innocence above suspicion.

Leslie Fiedler

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

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

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

Leslie Fiedler

Leslie Fiedler

Born: March 8, 1917

Died: January 29, 2003 (aged 85)

Bio: Leslie Aaron Fiedler was an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American literature.

Known for:

Love and death in the American novel (1960)
Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self (1978)
Tyranny of the normal (1996)
The stranger in Shakespeare (1972)
A new Fiedler reader (1999)

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