The Word on the Street: Linking the Academy and the Common Reader
Linking the Academy and the Common Reader (New Public Scholarship Series)
Harvey M. Teres
ISBN: | 9780472051366 |
Publisher: | The University of Michigan Press |
Published: | 28 November, 2010 |
Format: | Paperback |
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The Word on the Street: Linking the Academy and the Common Reader
Linking the Academy and the Common Reader (New Public Scholarship Series)
Harvey M. Teres
The Word On the Street invites humanities scholars to move beyond the classroom and the monograph to share the pleasures of art in ways that engage the intelligence of the common reader, cultivating the critical imagination so vital to American cultural democracy. Lively and thought-provoking, Teres lays out contemporary debates and wades into them with gusto." ---Nancy Cantor, Syracuse University "At a moment when questions about the literary, 'bookishness,' and the future of print are being urgently raised, with incessant national attention to the perceived crises of literacy and reading, Teres' thoughtful, broadly democratic, but also tough-minded examination of both 'common readers' and academic readers makes a real contribution to the debate." ---Julie Ellison, University of Michigan 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 li
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