The Arts Without Mystery Denis Donoghue, the Henry James Professor of Letters at New York University, gives the third of six lectures on the place of the arts in modern society.
The Parade of Ideas 'One of the peculiar things about the present situation is that while the dialects of criticism have become more than ever divisive, the arts as an institution have been drawn into the general purposes of society. The consequence is that democratic habits of mind, such as the objection to privilege, have, for better and worse, provided the conditions for the reception of the arts.'
(This lecture appears in THE LISTENER dated 25 Nov)