Knowledge and Censorship

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-349-53962-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 177 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the function of libraries in the electronic age, and the uses of censorship. In the second part of the volume, Verónica Albin engages Stavans in a series of four conversations in which he expounds on the arguments he developed in the essays.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stavans, I.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface * PART I: FOUR ESSAYS ON FREEDOM * The Process Glitch * Wor(l)ds * Stealing Books * Keeping My Mouth Shut * PART II: CONVERSATIONS WITH VERÓNICA ALBIN * Knowledge * Dictionaries * Libraries * Censorship

Über Autor(innen)

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professorof Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College. Verónica Albin is Senior Lecturer of Spanish, Rice University.