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Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America
Alan Ackerman
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Description for Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America
Hardback. 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'. This book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSG; JPVH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 564.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300167122
SKU
V9780300167122
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99-1
About Alan Ackerman
Alan Ackerman is professor of English, University of Toronto. His books include Seeing Things, from Shakespeare to Pixar and The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage, and he is editor of the journal Modern Drama.
Reviews for Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America
“Ackerman does an admirable job of tying this case to the great issues of the mid-twentieth century. He uses Hellman and McCarthy as a pretext for fascinating digressions about John Dewey’s commission on Leon Trotsky, the history of Latin instruction in America, and the culture’s attitude toward abortion in the 1930s.”—Franklin Foer, The New Republic
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