Word: menand
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...want to see a substitute in any way for legitimate ladder appointments.” “The maintenance of a system of ladder faculty is central for the health and vitality of this university and universities throughout the country,” he added. English Professor Louis Menand said that he is worried the program may not be a service to Fellows in the long term, since it may leave postdocs jobless after their one-year stint. “It’s really a way to get inexpensive teaching,” he said...
...things that is inspiring to writers is that he just never stopped writing,” said English Professor Louis Menand, an expert on American literature penned during the Cold War. “He wrote a book every year...
...While Updike excelled in a number of different genres, Menand said that he especially admired Updike’s short stories, which he said he would place at the level of Hemingway’s and James Joyce?...
...Joyce called it an epiphany: this moment in a short story where you suddenly see the story in a different way—the way things really are,” Menand added...
...Menand added that the four “common-ground modules,” which claim to redefine the English discipline, still leave out many branches such as literary criticism and 20th-century American literature: his own specialty...