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Knowledge and Censorship /

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 vol...

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Main Authors: Stavans, Ilan (Author), Albin, Verónica (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
Literature.
Linguistics, general.
Literary Theory.
Linguistics.
Literature > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages)
ISBN:9780230611252
DOI:10.1057/9780230611252