Michael Wögerbauer, Petr Píša, Petr Šámal, Pavel Janáček et al. V obecném zájmu. Cenzura a sociální regulace literatury v moderní české kultuře 1749-2014. I. 1749-1938, II. 1939-2014. Praha: Academia, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, 2015. ISBN 978-80-200-2491-6 (Academia) -- ISBN 978-80-88069-11-9 (Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR). 990 Kč
2016
Abstract
The review introduces the monumental work of Czech scholarship, the two-volume collective monograph In the Public Interest: Censorship and the Social Regulation of Literature in Modern Czech Culture, published by a group of scholars based mostly (but not exclusively) at the Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, and specializing (also not exclusively) in the history of Czech literature and history of the book. It describes its approach to censorship and its scope and structure and assesses it simportance in the European context.