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Lecture

By Mary Cappello

Book information

Publisher
Transit Books
Year
2020
ISBN
9781945492464, 2020010036, 2020010037, 9781945492426
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2213852 bytes)
Series
Undelivered Lectures
Pages
\0
Time added
2022-10-03 05:22:38
LIT006000LIT007000LIT024060Literary CriticismNonfiction

Description

"[Cappello's] excellent new book-length essay, Lecture... at once defends the lecture and calls for holistic and creative improvements to the form."—The Atlantic In twenty-first century America, there is so much that holds or demands our attention without requiring it. Imagine the lecture as a radical opening. Mary Cappello's Lecture is a song for the forgotten art of the lecture. Brimming with energy and erudition, it is an attempt to restore the lecture's capacity to wander, question, and excite. Cappello draws on examples from Virginia Woolf to Mary Ruefle, Ralph Waldo Emerson to James Baldwin, blending rigorous cultural criticism with personal history to explore the lecture in its many forms—from the aphorism to the note—and give new life to knowledge's dramatic form.

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