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Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works

Yazan: Maureen Corrigan, The Great Courses
Seslendiren: Maureen Corrigan
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Throughout the 24 lectures of Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works, author and book critic Professor Maureen Corrigan of Georgetown University will take you on a tour of some of the most challenged and controversial works of literature, from the plays of Shakespeare to 21st-century best-sellers—even including the dictionary and classic fairy tales. You will trace the history, in the United States and Great Britain, of the challenges to books, the censoring of books, book bans, and even burnings. You will explore the common reasons books have been and continue to be banned, including profanity, heresy, illicit or sexual content, racism, violence, and more. And you’ll consider the shifting trends in why books are challenged.

The challenging, censorship, and even destruction of works found to be offensive or threatening to the status quo is not new, but the nature of 21st-century communication and politics has certainly influenced the way books are evaluated and judged today. The rise of social media has blurred the line between an author’s work and their private life, while it has also given readers and would-be critics a platform to make their voices heard. And social justice movements have brought race, sexual identity, and other issues to the forefront of the consideration of literature and its influence on culture.

These new elements certainly influence how we approach censorship now, and yet many of the complaints brought against books today are not so different from the criticism of a century (or several) earlier. And the taboo and forbidden nature of banned books has its own special appeal for the human psyche as well, making literary censorship an especially complicated and fascinating subject. As you consider the broader history of book censorship, you will hopefully find yourself thinking more rigorously about your own views on intellectual freedom and the right to read.

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Very good lectures. I was surprised at some of the titles. Fighting for free speech has a long history.

Puts today In context

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Detailed, vivacious, knowledgable, wide-ranging, up-to-date and fascinating exploration of book censorship, mainly in the US. Expect historical, political and moral insights as well as literary ones. I came away with a more nuanced view of censorship from both the right and the left, but also having enjoyed finding out more in general about some legendary works. I highly recommend this audio book and would place it in the top ten of the hundred or so I’ve listened to on Audible.

Superb!!

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great series of lectures - although it's ironic that The Great Courses felt the need to bleep a four letter word in a lecture on censorship and couldn't see fit to trust their listeners

fascinating exploration of censorship in literature

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Dr Corrigan is a fabulous sentinel regarding how literature shouldn’t be suppressed but embraced and understood. I was horrified to discover how censorious America is. A great series of lectures and delivered beautifully.

Fascinating

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Isn’t it ironical that each of these lectures about censorship starts with a content warning disclaimer? And that the lecturer never says “nigger” when quoting books, but uses the “n word” euphemism? And that the only time (if I’m not mistaken) on quoting a text the word “fuck” is bleeped out? I don’t find it amusing, I find it very, very sad. The lecturer is a very intelligent and very well-read woman and a good speaker, but unfortunately only half of her lectures are really interesting and the rest is incredibly boring. It is important to give plenty of details about the banning of, say, To Kill a Mockingbird, but it is completely out of place to give countless details about when, where (what state, what town etc.) and by whom books were banned in schools and library in the US or attempts were made to ban them. These incredibly long sections should have been part of a series of lectures dedicated with that topic in particular along the lines of “Banned and Cancelled Books in Library and Schools across the US”. For a series of lectures entitled “Banned Books, Burned Books, Forbidden literary Works” one lecture about the reasons why books have been banned in schools and libraries would have been enough. I’d give 4-5 stars to the half of the lectures and 2 stars to the rest, so an average of 3 stars.

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