Literary Trials - Exceptio Artis and Theories of Literature in Court
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Literary Trials as Mirrors. An Introduction Ralf Grüttemeier
Part I Towards More Autonomy of Literature. Histories of Literary Trials
1 The Legal Responsibility of the Writer Between Objectivity and Subjectivity: The French Case (Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century) Gisèle Sapiro
2 The Making of the 1959 Obscene Publications Act: Trials and Debates on Literary Obscenity in Britain Before the Case of Lady Chatterley Anton Kirchhofer
3 Law and the Literary Field in South Africa, 1910–2010 Ted Laros
4 De Sade as a Benchmark. Dutch Legal Actions Against Obscenity in Literature, Theatre and Film in the 1960s and 1970s Klaus Beekman
5 Freedom of Satire? Oskar Panizza’s Play Das Liebeskonzil in a Series of Trials in Germany and Austria Claudia Lieb
6 ‘Words are No Deeds’. Trials Against Literature in the Soviet Union Sylvia Sasse
Part II Change of Rules? The Challenges of Defamation and Religion
7 Literature Losing Legal Ground in Germany? The Case of Maxim Biller’s Esra (2003–2009) Ralf Grüttemeier
8 Defamation Trials in Belgium – The Case of Herman Brusselmans’s Novel Uitgeverij Guggenheimer Katharina Hupe
9 Libellous Literature: Elton John and the Perils of Close Reading Peter D. McDonald
10 ‘The Law Is a Ass’: Obscenity, Blasphemy and Other Literary Offences after Lady Chatterley Martin A. Kayman
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