{"id":1889,"date":"2014-06-27T03:16:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T03:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2014-06-27T03:16:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T03:16:31","slug":"how-amazon-and-goodreads-are-changing-literary-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/how-amazon-and-goodreads-are-changing-literary-criticism","title":{"rendered":"How Amazon and Goodreads are changing literary criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">Tuesday 24 June 2014 9:12AMAnna Frey Taylor and Michael Cathcart<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/image\/5544164-3x2-700x467.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><br \/>\nA smart phone next to an open book IMAGE: FROM GOODREADS TO AMAZON, THE INTERNET HAS DEMOCRATISED BOOK REVIEWING. (GETTY IMAGES\/JILL FERRY PHOTOGRAPHY)<br \/>\nThe past decade has seen a flourishing of amateur literary<!--more--> criticism on websites like Amazon and Goodreads. Anna Frey Taylor and Michael Cathcart take a look at how the internet is changing the culture of literary criticism.<br \/>\n&#8216;A good deal of reviewing, especially of novels, might well be done by amateurs &#8230; whose ideas about [the novel] would surely be worth more than those of a bored professional,&#8217; wrote George Orwell in 1946. With this simple remark, Orwell anticipated the rise of the amateur literary critic.<\/p>\n<p>Each day on blogs and book websites worldwide, thousands of amateur book reviewers share their opinions on the books they are reading. It is a phenomenon that has been closely examined by Dr Simone Murray, a senior lecturer in literary studies at Monash University. Murray recently authored the paper Everyone\u2019s a Critic: Mass Amateur Book Reviewing in the Digital Literary Sphere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/booksandartsdaily\/how-amazon-and-goodreads-are-changing-literary-criticism\/5544156\" target=\"_blank\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday 24 June 2014 9:12AMAnna Frey Tay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/how-amazon-and-goodreads-are-changing-literary-criticism\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[223,509,510],"views":1425,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}