MEMBER BLOG TAG: death of the professional critic
| Wednesday, April 27, 2011 9:29PM | | | | THE NEXT DECADE IN BOOK CULTURE | Tags: Technology & Book Publishing, Internet & Blogosphere & Literary Criticism, 21st Century Book Reviewing, Death of the Professional Critic, Authority Everywhere Creates Authority Nowhere, Democratization of Literary Criticism.
| | | | THE NEXT DECADE IN BOOK CULTURE, Wed. Apr. 27th Eve., was a panel discussion hosted by Jane Ciabattori, past president of the National Book Critics Circle, and current V.P. editor of CRITICAL MASS, the NBCC Newsletter and Blog: . The panel consisted of Morris Dickstein of the USA, Carsten Jensen of Denmark and Herve Le Teller of France. (Cynthia Ozick was ill and absent, and Finton O’Toole could not attend because of a family emergency.)
All seemed to agree that book culture is changing rapidly and giving way to new electronic technologies, and that the professional critic is dying, drowned out by the phenomenon of the blogosphere. “Authority everywhere, creates authority nowhere” and the democratization of reviewing is the death of literary criticism. Even so,... | | | | | |
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