Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres (History of Communication (Paperback)),New

Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres (History of Communication (Paperback)),New

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The condition of our public discussions about literary and cultural works has much to say about the state of our democracy. Classrooms, newspapers, magazines, Internet forums, and many other places grant citizens a place to hold public discoursesand claim a voice on national artistic matters.Rosa A. Eberly looks at four censorship controversies where professionals asserted their authority to deny citizen critics a voiceand effectively removed discussion of literature from the public sphere. Eberly compares the outrage sparked by the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer with the relative quiescence that greeted the much more violent and sexually explicit content of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Andrea Dworkin's Mercy. Through a close reading of letters to the editor, reviews, media coverage, and court cases, Eberly shows how literary critics and legal experts defused censorship debatesand undercut the authority of citizen criticsby shifting the focus from content to aesthetics and from social values to publicity.

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