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Censorship, Reading, and Interpretation: A Case Study from the Soviet Union

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Peter Scotto
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Abstract

Based on a close examination of a 1941 article by the Soviet scholar Leonid Grossman, this essay studies the moral questions faced by the reader of a work written under censorship.

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Special Topic: Literature and Censorship
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PMLA , Volume 109 , Issue 1: Special Topic Literature and Censorship , January 1994 , pp. 61 - 70
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1994

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