Ryden, Wendy. “Conflict and Kitsch:A Way to Move:

Ryden, Wendy. “Conflict and Kitsch: The Politics of Politeness in the Writing Class” A Way to Move:
Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies. Eds. Dale Jacobs & Laura R. Micciche. Boyton/CooK: Portsmouth, NH
“This manufacturing of consent is what theorists of political kitsch ulti9mately see as the consequence of an idyllic culture aesthetic that favors harmony over rupture” (83).
“A slippery term, I take ‘crisis’ to mean not so much that crisis should be induced, but rather responded to” (91).