The American Vandal

The Golden Age of The Working Critic

Aug 7, 2023
This podcast covers the crisis in literary criticism, demands for a cosmopolitan turn in literary studies, the alleged golden age of popular criticism, and the role of para-academic publications like the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 5min
2
The Critic as the Tumblebug
05:02 • 10min
3
Provincialism and Cultural Self-Sufficiency in the Anglo-sphere
15:07 • 7min
4
The Impact of Work on Students' Engagement
21:41 • 6min
5
The Golden Age of Popular Criticism: Reflections on the Changing Role of the Critic
27:42 • 4min
6
The Golden Age of Criticism: Exploring the Changing Landscape
32:02 • 25min
7
The Changing Landscape of Literary Criticism
56:41 • 14min
8
The Evolution of the LA Review of Books
01:10:19 • 10min