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Censorship in Canadian Literature.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (218 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773569379
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Censorship in Canadian LiteratureDDC classification:
  • C813/.5409
LOC classification:
  • PR9192.6.C33 C64 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Justifying Just Judgment -- 2 The Case against Censorship: Timothy Findley -- 3 The Ambivalent Artist: Margaret Atwood -- 4 In Defence of Censorship: Margaret Laurence -- 5 The Inevitability of Censorship: Beatrice Culleton and Marlene Nourbese Philip -- 6 Conclusion: Towards a More "Just" Judgment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Censorship has been amply studied in the context of European and American literatures but largely ignored in Canadian literary studies. In Censorship in Canadian Literature Mark Cohen provides the first analysis of censorship of and in English Canadian literature. He examines the views of five Canadian writers who, having been subjected to censorship attacks, grappled with the philosophical implications of censorship.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Justifying Just Judgment -- 2 The Case against Censorship: Timothy Findley -- 3 The Ambivalent Artist: Margaret Atwood -- 4 In Defence of Censorship: Margaret Laurence -- 5 The Inevitability of Censorship: Beatrice Culleton and Marlene Nourbese Philip -- 6 Conclusion: Towards a More "Just" Judgment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Censorship has been amply studied in the context of European and American literatures but largely ignored in Canadian literary studies. In Censorship in Canadian Literature Mark Cohen provides the first analysis of censorship of and in English Canadian literature. He examines the views of five Canadian writers who, having been subjected to censorship attacks, grappled with the philosophical implications of censorship.

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