The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope / / Joel Faflak, Jason Haslam.

• VerfasserIn: Faflak, Joel,; Haslam, Jason,
• MitwirkendeR: Allard, James Robert,; Bhatia, Nandi,; Coleman, Daniel,; Deane, Patrick,; Esterhammer, Angela,; Faflak, Joel,; Gobert, R. Darren,; Haslam, Jason,; Larson, Katherine R.,; Most, Andrea,; Polanyi, John,; Szeman, Imre,; Wright, Julia M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope brings together a number of winners of the Polanyi Prize in Literature - a group whose research constitutes a diversity of methodological approaches to the study of culture - to examine the rich but often troubled association between the concepts of th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction : Public Hopes
• PART ONE. Public Readings
• 1. "Maga-scenes": Performing Periodical Literature in the 1820s
• 2. "A Wicked Whisper": Censorship, Affect, and Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
• 3. Sense and Sensibility: Anatomies of Hope in Romantic-Century Medical Pedagogy
• 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
• PART TWO. Public Performances
• 5. Margaret Cavendish's Civilizing Songs
• 6. Get Happy! American Film Musicals and the Psychopathology of Hope
• 7. To Be (Or Not To Be): Ernst Lubitsch's Irrepressible Theatrical Liberalism
• 8. Inglourious Criticism, Basterd Fantasies: Rancière, Tarantino, and the Intellectual Spectacle of Hope
• PART THREE. Public Matters
• 9. Beyond the Book: Reading as Public Intellectual Activity
• 10. The Political Nature of Things: David Suzuki and Narratives of Change
• 11. The Immaterial Matters
• 12. Higher Education and the End(s) of Time
• List of Contributors
• Index