Louis Menand Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.

  Louis Menand

  College, People, News

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• I suppose everybody does get attached to characters whether in movies or in stories, but I think that's part of the reason you get involved with literature is because there's somebody that grabs you about it and then you want to figure out why.

  Louis Menand

  Character, Thinking, Doe

  Source: bigthink.com

• I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.

  Louis Menand

  Fun, Thinking, Literature

  Source: bigthink.com

• Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

  Louis Menand

  Views, Medicine, Political

• I think that the idea that there's such a thing as a national literature that's somehow uniquely expressive of a national soul or culture or mentality is probably also something that nobody really believes in anymore.

  Louis Menand

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

• One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature - but one of the functions of that is basically the sort of Consumer Reports function of letting readers know whether this is something they want to read.

  Louis Menand

  Criticism, Literature, Want

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

  Louis Menand

  Art, Thinking, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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