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Books on: book censorship

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Banned in the U.S.A: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries

Book by Herbert N. Foerstel; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

Book Selection--United States, Censorship--United States, Public Libraries--Book Selection--United States, Public Libraries--Censorship--United States, Public Schools--Censorship--United States, Textbooks--Censorship--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Came to Arrest the Books, Florida English Journal...A Chilling Case of Censorship, p. 14. 70. Book Ban Issue: Parents Rights vs. Censorship, Panama City News...73. Ibid. 74. Book Ban Issue: Parents Rights vs. Censorship, p. A2. 75. Ibid...Came to Arrest the Books, p. 14. 77. Peter...
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Purity in Print: The Vice-Society Movement and Book Censorship in America

Book by Paul S. Boyer; Charles Scribners Sons, 1968

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Censorship--United States--History, Obscenity (Law)--United States

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...Weekly , the bible of the book trade, occasionally expressed...PW made no move to combat censorship in general. Late in 1922...the need for a more rigid censorship, Publishers Weekly raised...Publishers take a stand against censorship in the early 1920s. Early...
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Censorship of Expression in the 1980s: A Statistical Survey

Book by John B. Harer, Steven R. Harris; Greenwood Press, 1994

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Censorship--United States--Statistics

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...comparison of institutional censorship can also be made from...Woods A Decade of Censorship in America see Table 5.6 . Lee Buffess book, Battle of the Books , however has not recorded...institutions affected by censorship challenges. All sources...
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An American Paradox: Censorship in a Nation of Free Speech

Book by Patrick Garry; Praeger, 1993

Subjects:

Censorship--United States

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...traditional directions. Book censorship has been one such focus...challenges to library books and school materials...attempts to censor school books doubled in the Northeast...1988 and 1989. The book censorship that began in the 1920s...the 1990s. Among the books that came under attack...
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Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship

Book by Richard Burt; Cornell University Press, 1993

Subjects:

Drama--Censorship--England--History--17th Century, Jonson, Ben--1573?-1637--Censorship, Theater--Censorship--England--History--17th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and monolithic definition of censorship. Several unfortunate consequences...political critics tend to focus on book censorship and on literature-- hence the...with regard to past instances of censorship in the United States. Trials

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Journal Articles on: book censorship

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Defending Am I Blue: This Case Study Is about How One Midwestern U.S. Community Dealt with a Censorship Challenge. It's Also about the Author Recognizing His Professional Responsibility

Journal article by William J. Broz; Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Vol. 45, 2002

Subjects:

Am I Blue: Coming Out From the Silence (Book)--Censorship, Banned books--Social aspects, Censorship--Personal narratives, Homosexuality and literature--Censorship, Literature, Immoral--Censorship

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...board, wanted the book out or wanted to avoid...to the extent that censorship didnt bother them...students to read such books and check them out...more sinister form of censorship is the covert removal...easily this kind of censorship can grow into a regular...school library has a book which also appears on a list of "books that should be challenged...
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Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England.

Journal article by Richard Burt; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 56, 2003

Subjects:

Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England (Book)

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...the hermeneutics of censorship developed in her book Censorship and Interpretation...well over half of the books chapters have appeared...easily accessible in a book, and the volume makes...early modern theater censorship, Mastering the Revels...
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Protecting the Troops from Hemingway: An Episode in Censorship

Journal article by Scott Donaldson; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 15, 1995

Subjects:

Hemingway, Ernest--Works, Selected Short Stories--Censorship, To Have and to Have Not (Book)--Censorship

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Hemingway: an episode in censorship. by Scott Donaldson In 1976...found copies of the offending book in the Special Services library...obscene matter." Still, books like this were "detrimental...Point One. Look, this book has been approved by committees...popular classics, and other books of general interest," were...prepared lists of approved books, which were then sent to...detailed scrutiny" by the book reviewing section of a nonprofit...
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Censorship in Canadian Literature

Journal article by Yves Laberge; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 34, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Censorship in Canadian Literature (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...broad title, this book includes five essays...studies related to censorship in contemporary English...Laurences thoughts on censorship, Beatrice Culletons...the final contents of books and art works, even...in gay and lesbian books and magazines (156). Perhaps another book on these specific issues...about the fact that censorship is a necessary problem...
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Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England

Journal article by Alexandra Halasz; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...practices, however, the book argues that there was a coherent...suggests, made the necessity of censorship seem self-evident. This...anticipations of later models of censorship. Her unwavering commitment...morally intelligible basis for censorship is the books great strength, for the thoroughness...

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Magazine Articles on: book censorship

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Biographer Hazel Rowley Reflects on Book Censorship in France

Magazine article; American Scholar, Vol. 78, Winter 2009

Subjects:

Authors--Works, Biographies--Laws, regulations and rules, Biography--Laws, regulations and rules, Book publishing--Laws, regulations and rules, Censorship--Laws, regulations and rules, France--Social policy, Publishing law--Evaluation, Rowley, Hazel--Works, United States--Social policy, Writers--Works

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...Hazel Rowley Reflects on Book Censorship in France. The French writers...were vehemently opposed to censorship in any form, a belief in...France, Gallimard liked the book and wanted to publish it in...all of Sartres and Beauvoirs books in their day and numerous books posthumously. Not surprisingly...first need to make sure my book would not offend the literary...
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The New Censorship: Sara Paretsky on the Chilling Climate in America, Where a Visit to a Foreign-Language Website Can Get You Arrested, and the FBI Can Search Library Records for Dissenting Books

Magazine article by Sara Paretsky; New Statesman, Vol. 132, June 2, 2003

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Authors, American--Attitudes, Authors, American--Practice, Censorship--Analysis, Civil rights--Analysis, Paretsky, Sara--Attitudes, Paretsky, Sara--Practice, Political culture--Analysis

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The New Censorship: Sara Paretsky...for Dissenting Books. by Sara Paretsky...It was a lousy book, and it made a...you thought of books. You thought of...request a second book. Everything is...even government censorship can destroy our...publication of her next book, which was on...government as outright censorship. Today in America...hitman had a list of books that he wanted...
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Censorship in Today's Britain

Magazine article by Michael Karwowski; Contemporary Review, Vol. 290, Spring 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Freedom's Frontier: Censorship in Modern Britain (Book)--Book reviews

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Censorship in Todays Britain. by Michael Karwowski Freedoms Frontier: Censorship in Modern Britain. Donald Thomas. John Murray...my life? Alarm at this latest expression of censorship has also persuaded Donald Thomas, poet, novelist...
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Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth

Magazine article by Leah Platt; The American Prospect, Vol. 12, August 27, 2001

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth (Book)--Reviews

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...treatise about youth and censorship, Not in Front of the...reads like a comic-book clash between intrepid...significant costs of censorship to society and to youngsters...sided sample that comic books lead to criminal activity...real harm" to justify censorship. An elaboration of...after rereading her book Im still not sure that...
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School Censorship and the Null Curriculum

Magazine article by Stephen Tedesco; Our Schools, Our Selves, Vol. 18, Summer 2009

Subjects:

Canada, Censorship, Curricula, School systems

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...or deny students access to books or periodicals deemed objectionable...schools and discuss how the censorship of materials in schools presents...students. A brief history of censorship in schools "The most obvious example of censorship is where a government or one...restricts, say, a film or book because of its perceived harm...

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Newspaper Articles on: book censorship

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They're 'Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Read' and Available in Brown Paper; CENSORSHIP HIGHLIGHTED BY 'BANNED' BOOK SEASON

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), September 28, 2011

Subjects:

Books, Censorship

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Available in Brown Paper; CENSORSHIP HIGHLIGHTED BY BANNED BOOK SEASON. Byline: ROBIN...harmless today but books including Black Beauty...raise awareness of censorship, freedom of expression...the collection of 50 books considered "mad...believed the Irish Censorship of Publications Board...two centuries, the book has been banned for...
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Muhammad and Man at Yale; Political Correctness Leads to Censorship in the Ivory Tower

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), August 31, 2009

Subjects:

Book publishing, Censorship, Yale University Press

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Political Correctness Leads to Censorship in the Ivory Tower. Byline...turban shaped like a bomb. The books author is Jytte Klausen of...Europe. By all accounts, the book is thoroughly researched and...at the last minute with a censorship order prohibiting the books planned illustrations. John...
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Library Accused of Censorship after Declining JFK Book

Newspaper article by Diana Wallace; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 20, 2000

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A.L.A.

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Library Accused of Censorship after Declining JFK Book. by Diana Wallace A library...accused the board of "political censorship" after the library declined...political, Soviet-style censorship" and said "the library board...
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Yes, We Need Censorship; like Colonels, Censors Helped Us Win WW II

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 12, 2009

Subjects:

Censorship, National security, Terrorism

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Yes, We Need Censorship; like Colonels, Censors...from Tony Blankleys new book American Grit: What It...a federal Office of Censorship was created to review...comfort to the enemy. Censorship applied not only to news...
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Orwellian Censorship; Iranians Target Internet Users

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 10, 2006

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Censorship

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Orwellian Censorship; Iranians Target Internet Users. Byline...wrote George Orwell in his famous book "1984," referring to the information...information and opposescensorship, self-censorship and government pressure on the media...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: book censorship

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Censorship

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...other countries, censorship is accepted as inevitable...were examples of censorship, as are modern instances of book banning. The absolute...the object of censorship has most often been...prosecutions and seizures of books. This law remained...
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Rushdie, Sir Salman

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...death. Violence occurred in some cities where the book was sold, and Rushdie went into hiding. From...Stories (1990), a novelistic allegory against censorship; East, West (1995), a book of short stories; and The Moors Last Sigh (1995...
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Comic Strip

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...political and social issues. Comic Books In the 1930s renewed interest in book-length strips, of the sort...Busch, led to the modern comic book, a magazine printed in color...entire family. At first comic books reprinted entire episodes of...Authority to administer self-censorship standards, thus averting government...
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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...liberalizing reforms. The book was hailed as a brilliant...within a government hospital censorship tightened, and Solzhenitsyn...critic of Soviet society. His books found publication and an enormous...intellectual persecution and literary censorship of the cold-war period...more than 30 million of his books were sold and his works were...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...first work published in the Puritan colonies was the Bay Psalm Book (1640), and the whole effort of the divines who wrote furiously...Language grew so frank that there were bitter quarrels over censorship, as in the troubles about James Branch Cabell s Jurgen (1919...

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