UID:
edocfu_9959244646402883
Format:
1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 361 p.) )
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ports.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-15061-1
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9786613150615
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0-300-17180-3
Content:
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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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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I. Libel and Life- Writing --
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II. Language Lessons --
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III. Words of Love --
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IV. Choice Words and Political Dramas --
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V. Criticism versus Libel --
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Conclusion --
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Notes --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-16712-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300171808
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