class—in that audience—were developing similar or conflicting arguments in
their own work, yet no one had a word to say. Hers was a passive, absorptive
audience. They were a “cowed, credulous, hypnotized mass” in Bertolt
Brecht’s description of the traditional theater audience (Brecht qtd. in Willett
1959, 170).While the presenting student might have been distracted by her
own technical creativity, the larger breakdown in this classroom was in her
spectators, who failed to engage with and challenge…
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