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Duration: 42:00 with discussion afterwards — Talk delivered on Friday, October 13, 2023

The Rout of the Muses: The Crisis of Authority in the Fine Arts

—R. V. Young—
Touchstone Senior Editor, Author, Professor of English Emeritus at North Carolina State University

R. V. Young is Professor of English Emeritus at North Carolina State University, and a former editor of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization (Catholic University of America Press). He and his wife are parishioners at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church in Tarpon Springs, Florida. They have five grown children, fifteen grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. He is a senior editor of Touchstone.


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