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The Reith Lectures 1982

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The Arts Without Mystery
Denis Donoghue, the Henry James Professor of Letters at New York University, gives the fourth of six lectures on the place of the arts in modern society.
A Cherishing Bureaucracy
'Modern societies have a surprising interest in assimilating the arts: you would have thought that the arts could safely be allowed to go their own way. The question is: do modern societies domesticate the arts because they can't bear not to comprehend them or because they are determined to keep everything under control.' (Rptd: Sun 5.0 pm, R3) (This lecture appears in THE LISTENER dated 2 December)

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