The word on the street : linking the academy and the common reader / Harvey Teres.
2011
PN70 .T38 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
The word on the street : linking the academy and the common reader / Harvey Teres.
Author
Teres, Harvey M., 1950-
ISBN
9780472071364 (cloth ; alk. paper)
047207136X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472051366 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0472051369 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
047207136X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472051366 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0472051369 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2011.
Language
English
Description
x, 208 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PN70 .T38 2011
Summary
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
New public scholarship.
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Table of Contents
Public culture and academic culture
Revitalizing literary studies
Post-9/11: why the public needs literary critics
Lionel Trilling as public intellectual
Mary McCarthy's beauty
The decline of aesthetic literacy and the new aesthetics
When everyone misreads the same book
Reading simic in Syracuse
Dialogues on aesthetics and politics
Dialogues on aesthetics and judgment
Dialogues on aesthetics and spirituality.
Revitalizing literary studies
Post-9/11: why the public needs literary critics
Lionel Trilling as public intellectual
Mary McCarthy's beauty
The decline of aesthetic literacy and the new aesthetics
When everyone misreads the same book
Reading simic in Syracuse
Dialogues on aesthetics and politics
Dialogues on aesthetics and judgment
Dialogues on aesthetics and spirituality.