The Arts Without Mystery
The Henry James Professor of Letters at New York University, Denis Donoghue, gives the fifth of six lectures on the place of the arts in modern society.
The Anxious Object
'The arts most popular these days are those which provide the most direct access to their experiences. The question of the relative value of the experiences doesn't seem to be raised: it Is as if what people want of any experience is chiefly Its immediacy, and would settle for experiences which have that quality and nothing much else.'
(Rptd: Sun 5.0 pm, R3) (This lecture appears in THE LISTENER dated 9 December)