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Shaffer, E. S - Revolutions and censorship / edited by E.S. Shaffer

Title: Revolutions and censorship / edited by E.S. Shaffer
Description: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 1994. 1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description: xxvii. 300 p.: ill.; 24 cm. Contents: pt. 1. Revolutions and censorship. The poet and human solidarity / Miroslav Holub -- Writing and translating during the cold war in a country of which I know something: exiled in England / Adam Czerniawski -- Sanitizing the classics in Soviet Russia / Donald Rayfield -- The destroyers: Lunacharsky's letter to Stalin on censorship at the Moscow Art Theatre / Anatoly Smeliansky ; translated by Arch Tait -- Shadows on the stage: indirect theatre with censorship in Czechoslovakia. 1969-1989: interviews with leading directors. / Julek Neumann -- Historical trauma: political theory and novelistic practice in William Godwin's fiction / Gary Handwerk. pt. 2. Literature. translation and performance. Narrinai or good landscape: poems from Old Tamil / translated by Martha Ann Selby (first prize) -- Poems / Ivan V. Lalic and Drago Stambuk ; translated by F.R. Jones (second prize) -- Remnants: a story / David Bergelson ; translated from Yiddish by Golda Werman -- The Step swings away and other poems / Franz Baermann Steiner ; translated from German by Jeremy Adler -- Prayer in the garden / translated by Michael Hamburger -- Théo or the new era: extract from a novel / translated from French by Barbara Wright ; with an introduction. Robert Pinget or the perennial enquiry / by Madeleine Renouard -- Translating from a Chuvash poet: Gennady Aygi / Peter France -- The shadow. a play / Yevgeni Shvarts ; translated from Russian by Alan Myers. pt. 3. Essay reviews. Difficult truths: an essay review of J.P. Stern. The heart of Europe / Ritchie Robertson -- Body talk: a review of Barbara Maria Stafford. Body criticism: imaging the unseen in enlightenment art and medicine / Peter de Bolla. Subjects: Censorship. Revolutions in literature. ISBN: 0521471990.

Keywords: 0521471990

Price: EUR 100.00 = appr. US$ 108.68 Seller: MW Books
- Book number: 324213