Knowledge and Censorship

Informationen zum Autor Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professorof Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College. Verónica Albin is Senior Lecturer of Spanish, Rice University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface * PART I: FOUR ESSAYS ON FREEDOM * The Process Glitch * Wor(l)ds * Stealing Books * Keeping My Mouth Shut * PART II: CONVERSATIONS WITH VERÓNICA ALBIN * Knowledge * Dictionaries * Libraries * Censorship

List of contents

Preface * PART I: FOUR ESSAYS ON FREEDOM * The Process Glitch * Wor(l)ds * Stealing Books * Keeping My Mouth Shut * PART II: CONVERSATIONS WITH VERÓNICA ALBIN * Knowledge * Dictionaries * Libraries * Censorship

Product details

• Authors: Veronica Albin, Verónica Albin, Stavans, I Stavans, I. Stavans, I. Albin Stavans, Ilan Stavans
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2008
• EAN: 9781403984104
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-8410-4
• No. of pages: 191
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, B, Linguistics, Play, auseinandersetzen, Linguistics, general, Language: history & general works, Literary theory, Literature—Philosophy, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection