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The word on the street : linking the academy and the common reader / Harvey Teres.

Van Pelt Library PN70 .T38 2011
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Teres, Harvey M., 1950-
Series:
New public scholarship
The new public scholarship
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Literature--Study and teaching--United States.
Literature.
Literature--Study and teaching.
Literacy--Philosophy.
Literacy.
Books and reading.
Philosophy.
United States.
Literature--Appreciation--United States.
Literature--Appreciation.
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Books and reading--Philosophy.
Literature and society.
Politics and literature.
Physical Description:
x, 208 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2011]
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780472071364
047207136X
9780472051366
0472051369
OCLC:
617509014

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