Just words [electronic resource] : Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the failure of public conversation in America / Alan Ackerman.
Ackerman, Alan L. (Alan Louis)
2011
KF228.H45 A25 2011eb
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Title Just words [electronic resource] : Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the failure of public conversation in America / Alan Ackerman.
Author Ackerman, Alan L. (Alan Louis)
ISBN 9780300171808 (electronic book)
9780300167122
Imprint New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 361 p.) : ill.
Call Number KF228.H45 A25 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 346.73/034
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-341) and index.
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Introduction
Libel and life-writing
Language lessons
Words of love
Choice words and political dramas
Criticism versus libel
Conclusion.

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