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Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America
出版Yale University Press, 2011-06-28
主題Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / PoliticsBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresHistory / United States / 20th CenturyLaw / DefamationPerforming Arts / Television / GeneralPerforming Arts / Television / Genres / Reality, Game Shows & Talk ShowsPolitical Science / Civil RightsSocial Science / Media StudiesHistory / World
ISBN97803001718080300171803
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Y6CIUXuV6ToC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.