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    Leslie Fiedler

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    There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola. ↗


    — Leslie Fiedler

    #american culture #blue #blue jeans #class #clothes

    All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. ↗


    — Leslie Fiedler

    #criticism #good #history #judged #read

    Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish. ↗


    — Leslie Fiedler

    #anybody #centuries #century #know #like

    Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American. ↗


    — Leslie Fiedler

    #american #austen #completely #cooper #english

    DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath. ↗


    — Leslie Fiedler

    #got #me #never #nice #nothing

    Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible. ↗


    — Leslie Fiedler

    #faulkner #incredible #light #living #living room

    Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know. ↗


    — Leslie Fiedler

    #asked #faulkner #great #had #know

    Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying. ↗


    — Leslie Fiedler

    #because #could #france #him #i

    Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. ↗


    — Leslie Fiedler

    #frail #gertrude #gertrude stein #hemingway #married

    I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love. ↗


    — Leslie Fiedler

    #howl #i #long #rage #raised






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    Even though the Kenyon Review was a journal often associated with New Criticism Fiedler questioned the principles of New Criticism in his writing. Fiedler's argument includes descriptions of Montanans that were thought to be offensive to the actual residents of his community. After performing various translation-oriented duties Fiedler was discharged in 1945.

    Leslie Aaron Fiedler (March 8 1917 – January 29 2003) was an American literary critic known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. He was in practical terms one of the early postmodernist critics working across literature in general from around 1970.

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