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Citizen Critics : Literary Public Spheres by Rosa A. Eberly (2000, Trade...
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780252068676
- Book Title
- Citizen Critics : Literary Public Spheres
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Item Length
- 8.9 in
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Item Weight
- 16.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10
025206867X
ISBN-13
9780252068676
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038310826
Product Key Features
Book Title
Citizen Critics : Literary Public Spheres
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
General, American / General
Genre
Literary Criticism
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
99-006743
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"A well-written text that contribues much to public sphere studies. It offers needed case studies of actual citizen deliberation, which reveals how people may interact across multiple publics. Focusing on literary works, Citizen Critics connects cultural texts to political discourse, showing how cultural texts need not induce passivity in their audiences but instead may activate a political consciousness." -- Robert Asen, Augmentation and Advocacy ADVANCE PRAISE" Citizen Critics is clearly an important book, valuable for what it contributes to literary history, cultural criticism, and rhetoricalstudies, valuable for what it offers to potential citizen critics in and out of the academy, and, perhaps above all, valuable for what it contributes toward the regeneration of a public discourse in a truly participatory democracy." -- Stephen Mailloux, author of Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics, "A well-written text that contributes much to public sphere studies. It offers needed case studies of actual citizen deliberation, which reveals how people may interact across multiple publics. Focusing on literary works, Citizen Critics connects cultural texts to political discourse, showing how cultural texts need not induce passivity in their audiences but instead may activate a political consciousness."--Robert Asen, author of Invoking the Invisible Hand: Social Security and the Privatization Debates, "A well-written text that contribues much to public sphere studies. It offers needed case studies of actual citizen deliberation, which reveals how people may interact across multiple publics. Focusing on literary works, Citizen Critics connects cultural texts to political discourse, showing how cultural texts need not induce passivity in their audiences but instead may activate a political consciousness." -- Robert Asen, Augmentation and AdvocacyADVANCE PRAISE"Citizen Critics is clearly an important book, valuable for what it contributes to literary history, cultural criticism, and rhetoricalstudies, valuable for what it offers to potential citizen critics in and out of the academy, and, perhaps above all, valuable for what it contributes toward the regeneration of a public discourse in a truly participatory democracy." -- Stephen Mailloux, author of Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics
Dewey Decimal
813/.509/01
Synopsis
In this revealing study of the links among literature, rhetoric, and democracy, Rosa A. Eberly explores the public debate generated by amateur and professional readers about four controversial literary works: two that were censored in the United States and two that created conflict because they were not censored. In Citizen Critics Eberly compares ......, In this revealing study of the links among literature, rhetoric, and democracy, Rosa A. Eberly explores the public debate generated by amateur and professional readers about four controversial literary works: two that were censored in the United States and two that created conflict because they were not censored. In Citizen Critics 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 Psychoand 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 debates by shifting the focus from content to aesthetics and from social values to publicity. By asserting their authority to pass judgments--thus denying the authority of citizen critics--these professionals effectively removed the discussion from literary public spheres. A passionate advocate for treating reading as a public and rhetorical enterprise rather than solely as a private one, Eberly suggests the potential impact a work of literature may have on the social polity if it is brought into public forums for debate rather than removed to the exclusive rooms of literary criticism. Eberly urges educators to use their classrooms as protopublic spaces in which students can learn to make the transition from private reader to public citizen., The condition of our public discussions about literary and cultural works has much to say about the condition of our democracy and the author argues for more public discourse--in classrooms, newspapers, magazines, etc. to reclaim a public voice on national artistic matters. In this revealing study of the links among literature, rhetoric, and democracy, Rosa A. Eberly explores the public debate generated by amateur and professional readers about four controversial literary works: two that were censored in the United States and two that created conflict because they were not censored. In Citizen Critics 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 debates by shifting the focus from content to aesthetics and from social values to publicity. By asserting their authority to pass judgments--thus denying the authority of citizen critics--these professionals effectively removed the discussion from literary public spheres. A passionate advocate for treating reading as a public and rhetorical enterprise rather than solely as a private one, Eberly suggests the potential impact a work of literature may have on the social polity if it is brought into public forums for debate rather than removed to the exclusive rooms of literary criticism. Eberly urges educators to use their classrooms as protopublic spaces in which students can learn to make the transition from private reader to public citizen., 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 discourses--and 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 voice--and 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 debates--and undercut the authority of citizen critics--by shifting the focus from content to aesthetics and from social values to publicity.
LC Classification Number
PS379.E36 2000
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