Revolutions and censorship / edited by E.S. Shaffer
1994, 1st edition. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press. 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. Item #324213
ISBN: 0521471990
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. Lali 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.
Price: €100.00