The word on the street linking the academy and the common reader /

Teres, Harvey M. (1950-....)

The word on the street linking the academy and the common reader / [Texte imprimé] : Harvey Teres - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011 - 1 vol. (X-208 p.) ; 24 cm - The new public scholarship series . - The new public scholarship series (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor) .

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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

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Literature Literature Literature Books and reading Literacy Literature and society Politics and literature

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