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Giving offense : essays on censorship / J.M. Coetzee.

Giving offense : essays on censorship / J.M. Coetzee.

Giving offense : essays on censorship / J.M. Coetzee.

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Giving offense : essays on censorship / J.M. Coetzee.

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Giving offense : essays on censorship / J.M. Coetzee.

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Date

1996.

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N363.31/21

Record Identifier

74VMl80bDy43

MMS ID

991003439069702626

Language

English

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Physical content

xi, 289 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents

1. Taking Offense -- 2. Emerging from Censorship -- 3. Lady Chatterley's Lover: The Taint of the Pornographic -- 4. The Harms of Pornography: Catharine MacKinnon -- 5. Erasmus: Madness and Rivalry -- 6. Osip Mandelstam and the Stalin Ode -- 7. Censorship and Polemic: Solzhenitsyn -- 8. Zbigniew Herb...

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Publisher

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Place of Publication

Illinois

Date Published

1996.

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Summary

From Osip Mandelstam commanded to compose an ode in praise of Stalin, to Breyten Breytenbach writing poems under and for the eyes of his prison guards, to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn engaging in a trial of wits with the organs of the Soviet state, Giving Offense focuses on the ways authors have historically responded to censorship. It also analyzes the...

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Giving offense : essays on censorship / J.M. Coetzee.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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N363.31/21

Record Identifier

74VMl80bDy43

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMl80bDy43

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ISBN

0226111768 (pbk.)

9780226111742 (cloth : alk. paper)

0226111741 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780226111766 (pbk.)

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363.31

MMS ID

991003439069702626

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