Robert Bringhurst Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Opportunity, Endless Opportunities, Design

• Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Writing, Triumph, Purpose

• Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Literature, Russian Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that are fundamentally about the world, not about human individuals. A myth needn't include any humans at all. If it does include them, they're usually minor characters - imaginary humans sent out like scouts to report back on what's happening in the mythworld, but not central participants in the action.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Character, Literature, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as I can tell - because it's part of life itself. In the world of the hamburger stand and the supermarket, or the vegan café and the ashram, you might try to tell yourself it's possible to be nonviolent. In a hunting and gathering society, violence is more difficult to hide.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Hunting, Trying, Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Native American, Violence, Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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