Literary trials : exceptio artis and theories of literature in court / edited by Ralf Grüttemeier.
2016
K3253.A6 L58 2016 (Map It)
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Title
Literary trials : exceptio artis and theories of literature in court / edited by Ralf Grüttemeier.
Published
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, [2016]
Call Number
K3253.A6 L58 2016
ISBN
9781501303173 (hardback)
1501303171 (hardback)
9781501303180 (ePUB)
9781501303197 (ePDF)
1501303171 (hardback)
9781501303180 (ePUB)
9781501303197 (ePDF)
Description
viii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)908935154
Summary
"From the 19th century onwards, famous literary trials have caught the attention of readers, academics and the public at large. Indeed it is striking that more often than not, it was the texts of renowned writers that were dealt with by the courts, as for example Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal in France, James Joyce's Ulysses and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in the US, D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in Great-Britain, up to the more recent trials on Klaus Mann's Mephisto and Maxim Biller's novel Esra in Germany. By bringing together international leading experts, Literary Trials represents the first step towards a systematic discussion of literary trials on a global scale. Beginning by first reassessing some of the most famous of these trials, it then analyses less well-known but significant literary trials. Special attention is paid to recent developments in the relationship between literature and judicature, pointing towards an increasing role for libel and defamation in the societal demarcation of what literature is, and is not, allowed to do"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Papers from a conference held 21-22 March 2014 in Oldenburg in North-Western Germany. --Acknowledgments.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
vii
Acknowledgements
ix
Literary Trials as Mirrors. An Introduction / Ralf Gruttemeier
1
pt. I
Towards More Autonomy of Literature. Histories of Literary Trials
19
1.
Legal Responsibility of the Writer Between Objectivity and Subjectivity: The French Case (Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century) / Gisele Sapiro
21
2.
Making of the 1959 Obscene Publications Act: Trials and Debates on Literary Obscenity in Britain Before the Case of Lady Chatterley / Anton Kirchhofer
49
3.
Law and the Literary Field in South Africa, 1910--2010 / Ted Laws
69
4.
De Sade as a Benchmark. Dutch Legal Actions Against Obscenity in Literature, Theatre and Film in the 1960s and 1970s / Klaus Beekman
89
5.
Freedom of Satire? Oskar Panizza's Play Das Liebeskonzil in a Series of Trials in Germany and Austria / Claudia Lieb
107
6.
`Words Are No Deeds'. Trials Against Literature in the Soviet Union / Sylvia Sasse
123
pt. II
Change of Rules? The Challenges of Defamation and Religion
139
7.
Literature Losing Legal Ground in Germany? The Case of Maxim Biller s Esra (2003--2009) / Ralf Gruttemeier
141
8.
Defamation Trials in Belgium - The Case of Herman Brusselmans's Novel Uitgeverij Guggenheimer / Katharina Hupe
159
9.
Libellous Literature: Elton John and the Perils of Close Reading / Peter D. McDonald
175
10.
`The Law Is a Ass': Obscenity, Blasphemy and Other Literary Offences after Lady Chatterley / Martin A. Kayman
191
Index
217