TY  - BOOK
N2  - "Despite significant changes since the mid-twentieth century in American critical culture--the culture emanating from the serious review of books, ideas, and the arts--it attracts only a small and declining minority of Americans. However productive this culture has been, American society has not approached the realization of Emerson's or Dewey's vision of a highly participatory American cultural democracy. Such a culture requires critics who are read by the average citizen, but the migration of critics and intellectuals from the public to the academy has resulted in fewer efforts to engage with ordinary citizens. The Word on the Street investigates this disjunction between the study of literature in the academy and the interests of the common reader and society at large, arguing the vital importance of publicly engaged scholarship in the humanities. Teres chronicles how the once central function of the humanities professorate--to teach students to appreciate and be inspired by literature--has increasingly been lost to literary and cultural studies in the last thirty years. The Word on the Street argues for a return to an earlier model of the public intellectual and a literary and cultural criticism that is accessible to ordinary citizens. Along the way, Teres offers an account of the current problem and potential solutions, with the goal of prompting a future vision of publicly engaged scholarship that resonates with the common reader and promotes an informed citizenry." --From the back of the book.
AB  - "Despite significant changes since the mid-twentieth century in American critical culture--the culture emanating from the serious review of books, ideas, and the arts--it attracts only a small and declining minority of Americans. However productive this culture has been, American society has not approached the realization of Emerson's or Dewey's vision of a highly participatory American cultural democracy. Such a culture requires critics who are read by the average citizen, but the migration of critics and intellectuals from the public to the academy has resulted in fewer efforts to engage with ordinary citizens. The Word on the Street investigates this disjunction between the study of literature in the academy and the interests of the common reader and society at large, arguing the vital importance of publicly engaged scholarship in the humanities. Teres chronicles how the once central function of the humanities professorate--to teach students to appreciate and be inspired by literature--has increasingly been lost to literary and cultural studies in the last thirty years. The Word on the Street argues for a return to an earlier model of the public intellectual and a literary and cultural criticism that is accessible to ordinary citizens. Along the way, Teres offers an account of the current problem and potential solutions, with the goal of prompting a future vision of publicly engaged scholarship that resonates with the common reader and promotes an informed citizenry." --From the back of the book.
T1  - The word on the street :linking the academy and the common reader /
DA  - ©2011.
CY  - Ann Arbor :
AU  - Teres, Harvey M.,
CN  - PN70
PB  - University of Michigan Press,
PP  - Ann Arbor :
PY  - ©2011.
ID  - 1380441
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Literature and society.
KW  - Politics and literature.
KW  - Literaturwissenschaft
KW  - Literaturkritik
KW  - Ästhetik
KW  - Leserforschung
KW  - Massenkultur
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Literature and society.
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - Politics and literature.
SN  - 9780472071364
SN  - 047207136X
SN  - 9780472051366
SN  - 0472051369
TI  - The word on the street :linking the academy and the common reader /
ER  -