"Harold Bloom argues that aesthetic appeal goes hand in hand with strangeness or a kind of newness."
"What goes on in your head always belongs to you, but doubly so in the case of fiction."
"Having elements of the story are you allowed to change and still say well they're the same story?"
"There's a theory out there that predicts that Harry Voldemort and Snape are actually the three modern brothers of the Deathly Hallows tale."
"The author is dead insofar as she's not the only person who gets to decide how her work still gets interpreted."
"Genre isn't fixed in stone, it's a malleable, subjective concept molded by narrative experience and open to audience interpretation."
"We can learn new things about the stories we love and storytelling as a whole by applying it where it may not seem at first to belong."
"If Chekhov's gun is never fired, it's not Chekhov's gun."
"Characters tend to fall into five different broad types in writing: Dynamic, round, static, stock, and symbolic."
"Kicking it off with narratology, these are the basics. I'm not going to be able to cover every single aspect of narratology or poetics today because otherwise this video would be very, very, very long."
"Barbie’s journey resembles more of 'The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.'"
"According to this theory, Peter Pan is the angel of death that helps children cross into the afterlife."
"The concept of 'canon' is meaningless apart from an entity that has the authority to define what constitutes a given canon."
"How do you feel about the death of the author in the way that someone else can take your work and do what they will with it?"
"Madame Pince being Snape's mom is an intriguing anagram, but unlikely given Snape's recognition of his own mother."
"Magical realism is something everybody says but nobody can define it, and everyone else agrees with them."
"It's possible, I like this idea... because George R.R. Martin will love the symbolism and love the idea that many people could take on this theme of being Azor Ahai reborn."
"Spivak's translation and introduction sparked new critical attention to Derrida, broadening his audience and shifting the trajectory of American literary theory."
"Spivak directed our attention to the subalterns, particularly oppressed female colonial subjects, almost single-handedly establishing the practice in literary theory of studying non-western women."
"When a text exhibits features of multiple genres, it will usually be classified in the genre most distant from everyday realism."
"Death of the author is about critical analysis of literature and basically saying that there isn't one right answer."
"Fiction in America has been largely dominated by the iceberg theory of storytelling and the dirty realist prose style."
"For the new critics, a text is like a living organism."
"The contribution of new criticism that still lives on decades after its demise."
"Gynocriticism seeks to build a framework of literary analysis that is centered on female identity."
"It's called literary theory. We're doing it all the time and have been for decades and decades in every other field."
"The strong connection between psychoanalysis and literary theory has continued well beyond Freud."
"We will try to see how the different waves of feminism have impacted literary theory."
"Much of the contemporary literary theory is emerging out of concerns about our shared environment and ecology."
"The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut; beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences; it is a node within a network."
"There is no textual unity, there is textual disunity."
"...whenever we take up any new literary theory for discussion, we see that its emergence is strongly tied up with some kind of socio-political change or even turmoil."
"...what is today often labeled as literary theory or even simply as theory was an intellectual product of the political turmoil of the 1960s."
"...one of the most influential figures not only in the field of Western literary theory but also in the field of 20th century humanities in general."
"In the 20th century, we see a plethora of literary theories emerging from within the academia."
"A literary theorist cannot study a novel per se but can investigate only how a text becomes a novel through the bestowal of the reader's perception."
"A literary theory that emerges from the phenomenological tradition will foreground not the text nor even the author but the reader."
"The death of the author is a rhetorical way of asserting the independence of the literary text."
"The death of the author does not mark the end of anything but it only marks a beginning of a new era."
"The death of the author liberates what may be called an antitheological activity, that is truly revolutionary."
"...it was during these hundred years that saw the emergence of an attempt to theorize literature within the field of English literary studies."
"...the development of literary theory visa we English literary studies was at the heart of this 18th century enterprise to engage with literature in general and English literature in particular in a systematic manner."
"The reader is the essential creator of meaning in the text rather than the author."