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Lecture

By Mary Cappello
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By Mary Cappello
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"[Cappello's] excellent new book-length essay, Lecture... at once defends the lecture and calls for holistic and creative improvements to the form."—The Atlantic

In twenty-first century America, there is so much that holds or demands our attention without requiring it. Imagine the lecture as a radical opening.

Mary Cappello's Lecture is a song for the forgotten art of the lecture. Brimming with energy and erudition, it is an attempt to restore the lecture's capacity to wander, question, and e...

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Literary CriticismGeneral & Miscellaneous Literary CriticismModern LiteratureLiterature, Modern->21st century->History and criticism