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Canceled Classics in an Age of Cancel Culture

Canceled Classics in an Age of Cancel Culture

Author(s): Michael Polesny

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2025

Pages: 138

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PART 1 WHAT’S A BAN? WHAT’S A CLASSIC? 
CHAPTER 1 Literary Freedom – Limits and Exceptions 
CHAPTER 2 Clash & Classics: Beautiful Frictions Between the Real and the Ideal 
CHAPTER 3 The Futurity of Classics – The Case of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, Banned in its own Time; Loved in Future Times 
CHAPTER 4 Jack Kerouac’s On the Road – A Road to Fringe Culture 
CHAPTER 5 Links Between Literary Classicism, the Avant-garde & Revolutionary Action 
CHAPTER 6 The Case of James Joyce’s Ulysses: Avant-garde “Classic” Par Excellence, Paradigm Shift Par Excellence 

PART 2 VARIETIES OF BANNED CLASSICS 
CHAPTER 1 Joyce’s Ulysses: Conflicts with (Leading to Transformations of) the First Amendment 
CHAPTER 2 Lolita: A Liminal Dialogue between Nabokov & Joyce on the Obscene 
CHAPTER 3 Ovid’s Ars Amatoria – Sexually Obscene? Or a Catalyst for Feminine Agency and Rights? 
CHAPTER 4 Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn: “Illustrator” of Racism or “Perpetrator” of Racism? 
CHAPTER 5 Toni Morrison: The Saddest Bluest Eyes 
CHAPTER 6 Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale 
CHAPTER 7 George Orwell, 1984 
CHAPTER 8 J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
CHAPTER 9 D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover 
CHAPTER 10 Current Trends: Canceling Classics in the 2020s

Michael Polesny

Michael V. Polesny has been teaching literary classics — among other forms of literature (Evil in Literature, Utopias and Dystopias in Literature)—at City University of New York since 2009, now presently at CUNY’s Lehman College. He did his undergraduate studies in English at Columbia University (NY) and his doctoral studies in English and Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Former managing editor for The Agonist, treating the life and works of Friedrich Nietzsche, his current book project — called Deadly Boredom: Lessons from Classics on How to (and How Not to) Reclaim Enchantment — addresses what numberless philosophers have regarded as our past and present century’s number one epidemic, ennui, deadly boredom.

PART 1 WHAT’S A BAN? WHAT’S A CLASSIC? 
CHAPTER 1 Literary Freedom – Limits and Exceptions 
CHAPTER 2 Clash & Classics: Beautiful Frictions Between the Real and the Ideal 
CHAPTER 3 The Futurity of Classics – The Case of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, Banned in its own Time; Loved in Future Times 
CHAPTER 4 Jack Kerouac’s On the Road – A Road to Fringe Culture 
CHAPTER 5 Links Between Literary Classicism, the Avant-garde & Revolutionary Action 
CHAPTER 6 The Case of James Joyce’s Ulysses: Avant-garde “Classic” Par Excellence, Paradigm Shift Par Excellence 

PART 2 VARIETIES OF BANNED CLASSICS 
CHAPTER 1 Joyce’s Ulysses: Conflicts with (Leading to Transformations of) the First Amendment 
CHAPTER 2 Lolita: A Liminal Dialogue between Nabokov & Joyce on the Obscene 
CHAPTER 3 Ovid’s Ars Amatoria – Sexually Obscene? Or a Catalyst for Feminine Agency and Rights? 
CHAPTER 4 Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn: “Illustrator” of Racism or “Perpetrator” of Racism? 
CHAPTER 5 Toni Morrison: The Saddest Bluest Eyes 
CHAPTER 6 Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale 
CHAPTER 7 George Orwell, 1984 
CHAPTER 8 J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
CHAPTER 9 D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover 
CHAPTER 10 Current Trends: Canceling Classics in the 2020s

Michael Polesny
Michael Polesny

Michael V. Polesny has been teaching literary classics — among other forms of literature (Evil in Literature, Utopias and Dystopias in Literature)—at City University of New York since 2009, now presently at CUNY’s Lehman College. He did his undergraduate studies in English at Columbia University (NY) and his doctoral studies in English and Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Former managing editor for The Agonist, treating the life and works of Friedrich Nietzsche, his current book project — called Deadly Boredom: Lessons from Classics on How to (and How Not to) Reclaim Enchantment — addresses what numberless philosophers have regarded as our past and present century’s number one epidemic, ennui, deadly boredom.