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Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor of English and Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center and the author of Gates of Eden and Leopards in the Temple, among other works. He lives in New York City. "

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The Work of a Critic

First published in the Chronicle Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2, 2012

The role of critics varies greatly according to the mission they imagine for themselves and the audience they address. Academic critics writing for their peers will take a different tack from public critics speaking to a general audience, large or small, or from writers themselves using criticism to carve out a...

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Average rating: 3.46 · 276 ratings · 57 reviews · 21 distinct works

	Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression 300 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties 364 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1977 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction 1945-1970 350 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World 367 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law & Culture by Morris Dickstein, Stanley Fish (Editor) 300 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Double Agent: The Critic and Society 250 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Keats and His Poetry: A Study in Development 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1971 — 2 editions	My rating:
	James Baldwin 200 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	The Great Gatsby by Morris Dickstein, Morris Dicksten 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made by Irving Howe, Morris Dickstein, Kenneth Libo 410 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1989 — 10 editions	My rating:

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