Research Catalog

Title

The Administration of aesthetics : censorship, political criticism, and the public sphere / edited by Richard Burt (for the Social Text Collective).

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Burt, Richard, 1954-
• Social Text Collective

Description

xxix, 381 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cultural politics ; v. 7

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 7.

Subject

• Censorship
• Criticism > Political aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0816623651 (hard : alk. paper)
• 0816623678 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^94003881^

OCLC

• 29797972
• SCSB-9925663

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library