The Arts & The Public

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"What can the critic expect to learn from the artist?" "What is the role of the reviewer in increasing public understanding of the arts?" "Is academic criticism inaccessible to the general public?" These are some of the questions debated by the novelists, dramatists, artists, and critics who contribute to this book.
The papers were originally given at an exceedingly lively conference held at the University of Chicago in October 1966. Few questions were settled and many more were raised in the spirited discussions which followed each paper.
"The essays in this book were not written in response to one another," James E. Miller, Jr., points out in his introduction, "—no writer knew in advance what another was saying—but they reveal extremely interesting points of affirmation and points of contradiction. The result is a series of reverberations, ideas bounding about in profusion, frequently striking each other and shooting off sharply in eccentric directions, or settling to earth... Tovább

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"What can the critic expect to learn from the artist?" "What is the role of the reviewer in increasing public understanding of the arts?" "Is academic criticism inaccessible to the general public?" These are some of the questions debated by the novelists, dramatists, artists, and critics who contribute to this book.
The papers were originally given at an exceedingly lively conference held at the University of Chicago in October 1966. Few questions were settled and many more were raised in the spirited discussions which followed each paper.
"The essays in this book were not written in response to one another," James E. Miller, Jr., points out in his introduction, "—no writer knew in advance what another was saying—but they reveal extremely interesting points of affirmation and points of contradiction. The result is a series of reverberations, ideas bounding about in profusion, frequently striking each other and shooting off sharply in eccentric directions, or settling to earth gradually after defining graceful and uncontested arcs of their own." The reader, Mr. Miller suggests, may take this book as a do-it-yourself conference, under his own personal management, with ideas that he can speak for or against as he reads.
James E. Miller, Jr., is professor of English, and Paul D. Herring is assistant professor of English and College Humanities, both of The University of Chicago. Vissza