The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope

Joel Faflak; Jason Haslam

Published by University of Toronto Press 2013

The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope

Joel Faflak and Jason Haslam

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442690011

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About this book

The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope reflects on the challenging and often vexed work of intellectualism within the public sphere by exploring how cultural materials frame intellectual debates within the clear and ever-present gaze of the public writ large.

Author / Editor information

Faflak Joel :

Joel Faflak is professor of English and Theory at Western University, where he was also the Inaugural Director of the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities.
Haslam Jason :

Jason Haslam is an associate professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University.

Reviews

Michael O’Driscoll, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta:

“Focused on the troubled and animated discourse networks of culture, hope, and public intellectualism, this collection of essays by Polanyi Prize–winning scholars sets a new benchmark for the excellence and promise of humanities scholarship. Following Dr Polanyi’s ‘commitment to both research and social action as they epitomize the scholar as citizen,’ the editors have marshalled a series of essays by some of Canada’s most outstanding scholars that consider that task from a wide variety of perspectives and in a fully critical and self-conscious manner.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Foreword John Polanyi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction : Public Hopes Joel Faflak and Jason Haslam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE. Public Readings
1. “Maga-scenes”: Performing Periodical Literature in the 1820s Angela Esterhammer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2. “A Wicked Whisper”: Censorship, Affect, and Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Julia M. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3. Sense and Sensibility: Anatomies of Hope in Romantic-Century Medical Pedagogy James Robert Allard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
4. “I know the difference between what I see and what I only want to see”: Remembering India’s Partition through Children in Cracking India Nandi Bhatia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
PART TWO. Public Performances
5. Margaret Cavendish’s Civilizing Songs Katherine R. Larson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
6. Get Happy! American Film Musicals and the Psychopathology of Hope Joel Faflak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
7. To Be (Or Not To Be): Ernst Lubitsch’s Irrepressible Theatrical Liberalism Andrea Most Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
8. Inglourious Criticism, Basterd Fantasies: Rancière, Tarantino, and the Intellectual Spectacle of Hope Jason Haslam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
PART THREE. Public Matters
9. Beyond the Book: Reading as Public Intellectual Activity Daniel Coleman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
10. The Political Nature of Things: David Suzuki and Narratives of Change Imre Szeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
11. The Immaterial Matters R. Darren Gobert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
12. Higher Education and the End(s) of Time Patrick Deane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Other: 3 b&w illustrations
Keywords: DISCOUNT-B

eBook

Published: December 11, 2013
ISBN: 9781442690011