Interview: Professor Daniel Mendelsohn on Whether Literary Criticism Can Be Taught, and the Value of the Negative Review
“Because the culture as a whole is so overwhelmingly commercial, it’s vital that professional, public, literary, and cultural criticism remain independent,” says Professor Mendelsohn. “Negative criticism is, in part, what fights against the commercial, or the merely stupid, or vulgar; it is a form of resistance, a reminder that we must think for ourselves and not have our judgments coopted by advertising and the ephemeral.”
Post Date: 08-27-2019
Post Date: 08-27-2019