Leslie Fiedler Quotes
I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
Fiedler, Leslie. No! In Thunder: Essays on Myth and Literature. Boston: Beacon Press, 1960.
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In politics, this is one of the reasons why legislative debates will rarely change any minds or positions. The politician and his party are defined in part by his previous positions. In legislative debate, he is maintaining and supporting those positions. Scientifically, the best way to have a shot at changing a politicians position with new evidence, is to present it privately, in a 1 on 1 situation. Even if the politician has a member of his staff present, he is conscious of showing his staff member what he is not easily manipulated and will stand up for principles and the party.
Leslie Aaron Fiedler was an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work incorporates the application of psychological theories to American literature. Fiedler's most renowned work consists of Love and Death in the American Novel (1960). A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as "one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work." This groundbreaking work views in depth both American literature and character from the time of the American Revolution to the present. From it, there emerges Fiedler's once scandalous—now increasingly accepted—judgement that our literature is incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death.
