Jag hörde det här citatet på en konferens häromveckan, från Franco Moretti:
[Reading] individual works is as irrelevant as describing the architecture of a building from a single brick, or the layout of a city from a single church. What is needed is a “cultural geography” or a “cultural botany” of literary criticism…
…och så visar det sig, efter lite rotande i arkivet, att jag redan har citerat det!