{"id":7522,"date":"2010-01-21T19:49:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T23:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=7522"},"modified":"2010-01-21T19:49:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T23:49:31","slug":"reasons-literature-alone-can-satisfy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/01\/21\/reasons-literature-alone-can-satisfy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cReasons Literature Alone Can Satisfy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/BlueBanner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7525\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/BlueBanner.jpg\" alt=\"BlueBanner\" width=\"416\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Readers of <strong>The Educated Imagination<\/strong> may be interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/maitzenreads.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/is-arguing-for-practical-utility-of.html\">this post<\/a> on Rohan Maitzen\u2019s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/maitzenreads.blogspot.com\/\">Novel Readings<\/a>.\u00a0 Responding to a review of Louis Menand\u2019s <em>The Marketplace of Ideas<\/em>, Professor Maitzen provides a cogent reflection on the dangers of emphasizing the practical benefits of literary study, at the expense of the actual subject matter of the discipline.\u00a0 She argues that \u201cWe need to justify the study of literature for reasons literature alone can satisfy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of The Educated Imagination may be interested in this post on Rohan Maitzen\u2019s blog Novel Readings.\u00a0 Responding to a review of Louis Menand\u2019s The Marketplace of Ideas, Professor Maitzen provides a cogent reflection on the dangers of emphasizing the practical benefits of literary study, at the expense of the actual subject matter of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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