Citizen critics PDF
By:Rosa A. Eberly
Published on 2000 by Univ of Illinois Pr
Revealing links among literature, rhetoric, and democracy, Rosa A. Eberly explores the public debate generated by amateurs and professionals about their readings of 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 where students can learn to make the transition from private reader to public citizen.
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