Literary trials : exceptio artis and theories of literature in court / / edited by Ralf Grüttemeier.
"From the 19th century onwards, famous literary trials have caught the attention of readers, academics and the public at large. Indeed it is striking that more often than not, it was the texts of renowned writers that were dealt with by the courts, as for example Gustave Flaubert's Madame...
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| Superior document: | Knowledge unlatched |
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Knowledge unlatched.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) :; illustrations. |
| Notes: | Papers from a conference held 21-22 March 2014 in Oldenburg in North-Western Germany. -- ECIP Acknowledgments. |
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Table of Contents:
- Literary trials as mirrors : an introduction / Ralf Grüttemeier
- The legal responsibility of the writer between objectivity and subjectivity: the French case (19th-21st century) / Gisèle Sapiro
- The making of the 1959 Obscene Publications Act : trials and debates on literary obscenity in Britain before the case of Lady Chatterley / Anton Kirchhofer
- Law and the literary field in South Africa, 1910-2010 / Ted Laros
- De Sade as a benchmark : Dutch legal actions against obscenity in literature, theatre and film in the 1960s and 70s / Klaus Beekman
- Freedom of satire? : Oskar Panizza's play Das Liebeskonzil in a series of trials in Germany and Austria / Claudia Lieb
- "Words are no deeds" : trials against literature in the Soviet Union / Sylvia Sasse
- Literature losing legal ground in Germany? : the case of Maxim Biller's esra (2003-2009) / Ralf Grüttemeier
- Defamation trials in Belgium : the case of Herman Brusselmans's novel Uitgeverij Guggenheimer / Katharina Hupe
- Libellous literature : Elton John and the perils of close reading / Peter D. McDonald
- "The law is a ass" : obscenity, blasphemy and other literary offences after Lady Chatterley / Martin A. Kayman.