“I have nothing but great respect for great scholars. But I was in grad school in the '80s and '90s, at the height of the theory craziness. It had a big part in why I ended up becoming a writer rather than a scholar, because I thought, "I just can't play these games." I was interested in literature because I loved literature, and so much of the theoretical positioning, at that moment 25 years ago, was antagonistic to literature. You know, trying to show that Jane Austen is a terrible person because she wasn't thinking about colonialism.” ThinkingTryingMomentsSchoolLiteratureTerribleScholarTheoreticalCrazinessGreat Respect Author:Daniel Mendelsohn
“Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.” Has BeensMomentsPainEasyEmotionToo MuchCuttingShameEnvyIntimateCrucialQuartersExileClosenessCrucial Moments Author:Daniel Mendelsohn
