ENG286 Banned Books: Censorship

Published in conjunction with the PEN American center, Burn this Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship, and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves.

The head of the National Coalition Against Censorship's Arts Program brings together the latest thinking from art historians, cultural theorists, legal scholars, and psychoanalysts, as well as first-person accounts by artists and advocates.

This collection of essays by journalist Paul Krassner, publisher of the free thought magazine The realist from 1958 to 2001, explores censorship, drugs, politics, literature, stand-up comics, and many other issues in contemporary American culture.

With forceful arguments and sensible solutions for rescuing American education from the pressure groups that have made classrooms bland and uninspiring, The Language Police offers a powerful corrective to a cultural scandal.

Susan Mooney extensively examines four modernist and postmodernist novels that prompted in their day harsh external censorship because of their sexual content—Ulysses, Lolita, Time of Silence, and Russian Beauty.