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“I don't think people believe that any more, I don't think people think that it really matters whether you appreciate Henry James more than Theodore Dreiser.”

Quote by Louis Menand

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Louis Menand is an American writer renowned for his cultural commentary and literary criticism. His writing style is characterized by incisive analysis and a sense of humor, covering a wide range of topics from history to contemporary social issues. more

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“The job of the critic, as it might have been conceived in the 1950's or 1960's, was some kind of role of moral arbiter for people, not a huge number of people, but people who were, you know, fairly educated, well-placed people.”

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“I don't think that taste should be the decider of moral issues.”

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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“My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.”

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“I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.”

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“I think at a place like Harvard, our experience, I was involved with, at various stages, in trying to implement a new general education curriculum, our experience was that Harvard's all about specialization, that's not just true of the professori, it's also true of a lot of the undergraduates, too, and they come, they kind of know what they want to do, they select it because they have a strong aptitude for something in particular.”

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“You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.”

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“Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds of subjects that the courses ought to cover.”

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