Obscene In The Extreme

Author : Rick Wartzman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786726075
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Obscene in the Extreme written by Rick Wartzman and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation's No. 1 bestseller, flying off store shelves at a rate of 10,000 copies a week. But in Kern County, California—the Joads' newfound home—the book was burned publicly and banned from library shelves. Obscene in the Extreme tells the remarkable story behind that fit of censorship, a moment when several lives collided as part of a larger class struggle roiling the nation. It is a superb historical narrative that serves as an engaging window into an extraordinary time of upheaval in America, when as Steinbeck put it, “A revolution is going on.”

Author : Rick Wartzman
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1586483315
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Obscene in the Extreme written by Rick Wartzman and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how, after its publication in 1939 and then becoming the nation's best-selling book, a great conflict arose in Kern County, California, as a giant cotton grower and a determined librarian went head-to-head over the issue of censorship with public burnings of this masterpiece at center stage.

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789358045291
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grapes of Wrath written by John Steinbeck and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grapes of Wrath is a novel written by John Steinbeck that tells the story of the Joad family's journey from Oklahoma to California during the Great Depression. The novel highlights the struggles and hardships faced by migrant workers during this time, as well as the exploitation they faced at the hands of wealthy landowners. Steinbeck's writing style is raw and powerful, with vivid descriptions that bring the characters and their surroundings to life. The novel has been widely acclaimed for its social commentary and remains a classic in American literature. Despite being published over 80 years ago, the novel still resonates with readers today, serving as a reminder of the importance of empathy and compassion towards those who are less fortunate.

Author : Agnar Mykle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Song of the Red Ruby written by Agnar Mykle and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Crispin Sartwell
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791429075
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality written by Crispin Sartwell and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sartwell presents an extreme and provocative philosophy of life. He explores what happens if we love this world precisely as it is, with all of its pain, with all of its evil, with all of its bizarre and arbitrary and monstrous thereness. In a highly personal and brutally direct style, Sartwell explores the themes of transgressive sexuality, political anarchism, addiction, death, and embodiment. The author engages contemporary and historical debates in cultural criticism, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy, and expresses deep suspicions about them. He asserts that scientific philosophical conceptualization is a movement toward death, a rejection of reality. Moral and political values - the ethical rejection of the particular precisely from within the particular - are, Sartwell claims, an assault on human authenticity. Thus, transgression - which is described as the affirmation of embodiment through obscenity - is something we radically require.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of parliament, ed. by J.H. Barrow. 8th parl., 2nd session-12th parl., 3rd session. 13th parl., 1st session-14th parl., 1st session written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. Antoon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137391782
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of the Obscene in Premodern Arabic Poetry written by S. Antoon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic literature. Antoon traces the genealogy of this fascinating genre in and examines its rise by placing it in its sociopolitical context.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prohibiting Obscene Animal Crush Videos in the Wake of United States V. Stevens written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David B. Downing
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791407158
Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book Image and Ideology in Modern/Postmodern Discourse written by David B. Downing and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the function and status of the visual and verbal image as it relates to social, political, and ideological issues. The authors first articulate some of the lost connections between image and ideology, then locate their argument within the modernist/postmodernist debates. The book addresses the multiple, trans-disciplinary problems arising from the ways cultures, authors, and texts mobilize particular images in order to confront, conceal, work through, or resolve contradictory ideological conditions.