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Cursus: LI2V17201
LI2V17201
Banned Books: Literature and Freedom of Speech
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeLI2V17201
Studiepunten (EC)7,5
Cursusdoelen
The students learn to do research into repressive practices and into literary strategies to avoid censorship. They are able to describe how literature relates to the political, juridical, and moral boundaries in a given society. They learn how to look for material (literary, legal and administrative documents) in libraries and archives.
Inhoud
This course provides a survey of the conflict between literary creativity and control by society, in a wide historical, European context, from the first printing press to the 21th Century. A series of case-studies of controversial texts and authors is discussed in connection to the regulations imposed to suppress or regulate the distribution of these works. Official secular and religious censorship (like the catholic Index), the development of copyright, as well as protests against “inflammatory”, “blasfemic”, or “amoral” texts, are studied, through authors like Erasmus, Montaigne, Vondel, Spinozo, Stuart Mill, Nabokov and Rushdie. They used various literary strategies to avoid censorship and repression, like the use of metaphor, humor and satire, hiding their name, et cetera.

LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/ for more information.

Lingua Receptiva (Luistertaal)
This course can be followed in Lingua Receptiva. This course is offered in English. The course is also open to students who only have a receptive understanding of this language (as lingua receptiva). If required, these students can participate in Dutch and take the exam and write assignments in that language. If you want to make use of lingua receptiva, please contact the teacher after enrolment. Please note: if you make use of lingua receptiva, this course will be registered as one of the elective modules of your programme. In this case, the course cannot count as a language-specific course within the major or minor part of your programme. 

This is the first course of the In-depth Courses Literature in conflict
 
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