MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2015005704
003 DLC
005 20151014080913.0
008 150530s2015 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015005704
020 $a9781628920093 (hardback)
020 $z9781628920109 (ePub)
020 $z9781628920116 (ePDF)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aZ657$b.C435 2015
082 00 $a363.31$223
084 $aLIT004120$aLIT004020$2bisacsh
245 00 $aCensorship and the limits of the literary :$ba global view /$cedited by Nicole Moore.
264 1 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,$c2015.
300 $avi, 260 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Though literature and censorship have been conceived as long-time adversaries, this collection seeks to understand the degree to which they have been dialectical terms, each producing the other, coeval and mutually constitutive. On the one hand, literary censorship has been posited as not only inescapable but definitive, even foundational to speech itself. On the other, especially after the opening of the USSR's spekstrahn, those enormous collections of literature forbidden under the Soviets, the push to redefine censorship expansively has encountered cogent criticism. Scholars describing the centralised control of East German print publication, for example, have wanted to insist on the difference of pre-publication state censorship from more mundane forms of speech regulation in democracies. Work on South African apartheid censorship and book banning in colonial countries also demonstrates censorship's formative role in the institutional structures of literature beyond the metropole. Censorship and the Limits of the Literary examines these and other developments across twelve countries, from the Enlightenment to the present day, offering case studies from the French revolution to Internet China. Is literature ever without censorship? Does censorship need the literary? In a globalizing era for culture, does censorship represent the final (failed) version of national control?"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Explores the defining relationship of literature to censorship across the globe"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aCensorship$xHistory.
650 0 $aCensorship$vCase studies.
650 0 $aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature and state.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aMoore, Nicole,$eeditor.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/093/9781628920093/image/lgcover.9781628920093.jpg