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UNINA9910456642803321 |
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Autore |
Ackerman Alan L (Alan Louis) |
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Titolo |
Just words [[electronic resource] ] : Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the failure of public conversation in America / / Alan Ackerman |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-15061-1 |
9786613150615 |
0-300-17180-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 361 p.) ) : ports |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Trials (Libel) - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century |
Television talk shows - Political aspects - United States |
Libel and slander - United States - History - 20th century |
Freedom of speech - United States - History - 20th century |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-341) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Libel and Life- Writing -- II. Language Lessons -- III. Words of Love -- IV. Choice Words and Political Dramas -- V. Criticism versus Libel -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment was not a legitimate conversation on public issues but an attack on her reputation. This intriguing book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression, freedom and restraint in public language, and what can and cannot be said in public in America. |
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