
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Irish literary critic Denis Donoghue gives the sixth Reith lecture in his series entitled 'The Mystery of Art'. The current Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University explores societies' need to over analyse art.
In this lecture entitled 'A Talent for Conviction', Denis Donoghue debates how society can increase subjectivity into art without destroying its mystery. He blames critics and their desire to explain every structure of society for devastating the ambiguity of art and asks for the arts to be kept in the margins of society. He claims that it is only in these margins that people can reflect on the art and their own desires.
By BBC Radio 44.3
148148 ratings
Irish literary critic Denis Donoghue gives the sixth Reith lecture in his series entitled 'The Mystery of Art'. The current Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University explores societies' need to over analyse art.
In this lecture entitled 'A Talent for Conviction', Denis Donoghue debates how society can increase subjectivity into art without destroying its mystery. He blames critics and their desire to explain every structure of society for devastating the ambiguity of art and asks for the arts to be kept in the margins of society. He claims that it is only in these margins that people can reflect on the art and their own desires.

7,774 Listeners

370 Listeners

896 Listeners

1,062 Listeners

5,513 Listeners

1,796 Listeners

1,865 Listeners

1,074 Listeners

2,114 Listeners

2,084 Listeners

302 Listeners

56 Listeners

240 Listeners

837 Listeners

161 Listeners

61 Listeners

106 Listeners

3,215 Listeners

772 Listeners

1,039 Listeners

3,536 Listeners

786 Listeners

60 Listeners

79 Listeners