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Sutherland John
Triggered Literature Cancellation Stealth Censorship And Cultural Warfare
Triggered Literature Cancellation Stealth Censorship And Cultural Warfare
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Description: Triggering . When and where did the usageoriginate? No one is sure. There is however clear connection with thepsychiatric term trauma trigger stimuli which can detonate unhealed wounds. The concept of triggering took off infeminist magazines and social media chat around 2010. Around 2013/14 it moved wholesale into higher education. In May 2014, the New York Times reportedthat at scores of institutions student bodies were demanding trigger warningsin their courses for canonical texts. It reached a floodmark with a survey by The Times of London in August 2022 which found that British universitieshad covertly added trigger warnings to over a thousand texts including theworks of literary greats such as Geoffrey Chaucer William Shakespeare Jane Austen Charlotte Bront Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie. Politicians in the US UK and Australiavilifies triggering with the sarcasms wokery and snowflakery . What isoverlooked in the heat of the argument is that triggering is categoricallydifferent from traditional institutional controls on literature. Triggering done responsibly honours the fact that great literature is great because itis as Kafka says powerful. In this extraordinary polemic John Sutherland former Visiting Professor of Literature at the California Institute of Technology takes a wide - ranging and characteristicallynuanced look at the history of triggering and censorship in literature andshows how it has become a theatre of culture warfare. Politicians in the greatsectors of the English - speaking world have taken up arms in that conflict. Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books has flared up again.
Title: Triggered Literature Cancellation Stealth Censorship And Cultural Warfare
Author(s): Sutherland John
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Barcode: 9781785908170
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 4/2/2024
Category: Literature: History & Criticism
Description: Triggering . When and where did the usageoriginate? No one is sure. There is however clear connection with thepsychiatric term trauma trigger stimuli which can detonate unhealed wounds. The concept of triggering took off infeminist magazines and social media chat around 2010. Around 2013/14 it moved wholesale into higher education. In May 2014, the New York Times reportedthat at scores of institutions student bodies were demanding trigger warningsin their courses for canonical texts. It reached a floodmark with a survey by The Times of London in August 2022 which found that British universitieshad covertly added trigger warnings to over a thousand texts including theworks of literary greats such as Geoffrey Chaucer William Shakespeare Jane Austen Charlotte Bront Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie. Politicians in the US UK and Australiavilifies triggering with the sarcasms wokery and snowflakery . What isoverlooked in the heat of the argument is that triggering is categoricallydifferent from traditional institutional controls on literature. Triggering done responsibly honours the fact that great literature is great because itis as Kafka says powerful. In this extraordinary polemic John Sutherland former Visiting Professor of Literature at the California Institute of Technology takes a wide - ranging and characteristicallynuanced look at the history of triggering and censorship in literature andshows how it has become a theatre of culture warfare. Politicians in the greatsectors of the English - speaking world have taken up arms in that conflict. Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books has flared up again.
Title: Triggered Literature Cancellation Stealth Censorship And Cultural Warfare
Author(s): Sutherland John
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Barcode: 9781785908170
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 4/2/2024
Category: Literature: History & Criticism