The administration of aesthetics : censorship, political criticism, and the public sphere
Calls attention to the crucial difficulties inherent in censorship when it is used as a tool for cultural criticism. These essays move discussions of censorship out of the present discourse of diversity into what might be called a discourse of legitimation.
Print Book, English, ©1994
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn., ©1994
xxix, 381 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780816623655, 9780816623679, 0816623651, 0816623678
29797972
Introduction: the "new" censorship / Richard Burt
Areopagitica, censorship, and the early modern public sphere / David Norbrook
Power and literature: the terms of the exchange 1624-42 / Christian Jouhaud
Flower power: Shakespearean deep bawdy and the botanical perverse / Donald Hendrick
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Policing the aesthetic from the left / Dennis Porter
Ulysses on trial: some supplementary reading / Brook Thomas
Whistler v. Ruskin: the courts, the public and modern art / Stuart Culver
Freud and the scene of censorship / Michael G. Levine
Censoring canons: transitions and prospects of literary institutions in Czechoslovakia / Jiřina Šmejkalová-Strickland
"Degenerate 'art'": public aesthetics and the simulation of censorship in postliberal Los Angeles and Berlin / Richard Burt
The contrast hurts: censoring the ladies in liberty in performance / Timothy Murray
Cyborg America: policing the social sublime in Robocop and Robocop 2 / Rob Wilson
Reading the Rushdie affair: "Islam," cultural politics, form / Aamir Mufti
Conclusion: political correctness: the revenge of the liberals / Jeffrey Wallen