Oct 01, 2023 Watch a Banned Book

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It's Banned Books Week and we've got some film adaptations of banned and challenged books recommended by Joni Clayton!...

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Oct 01, 2021 BANNED! — The Satanic Verses

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“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze?...

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Sep 30, 2021 BANNED! — The Scarlet Letter

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“She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness...

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Sep 29, 2021 BANNED! — All Quiet on the Western Front

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“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late....

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Sep 28, 2021 BANNED! — Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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“Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.” ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover Lady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Florence: Privately printed, 1928 Pirated edition, ca. 1930s PR6022 A93 L2 1928 In 1928, D.H. Lawrence privately printed his eleventh novel, Lady Chatterley’s...

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Sep 27, 2021 BANNED! — Slaughterhouse-Five

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“--Why me? --That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? --Yes. --Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no...

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Sep 01, 2021 Banned Books Week 2021

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Check out these readings from various members of our campus community. Each of them chose a passage from a book that has been banned or challenged....

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Sep 02, 2020 5 Banned or Challenged Book Recommendations

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Banned Books Week is an annual event in September where libraries celebrate the freedom to read....

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Mar 23, 2020 SHHHHHHH! A Digital Exhibition

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SHHHHHH! is a digital exhibition based on a physical exhibition in the Special Collections Gallery on display between September 9, 2015 and November 1, 2015. The exhibition marked Banned Books Week. Rare Books presented books, pamphlets, newspapers, and magazines that were banned, forbidden, censored, redacted, expurgated,...

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Sep 27, 2016 Book of the week — An Inflammatory Guide: Banned and Challenged…

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An inflammatory guide: banned & challenged… Jessica Spring Tacoma, WA: Springtide Press, 2012 xN7433.4 S713 I54 2012 From the colophon: “…printed by hand to commemorate Banned Books Week…” Letterpress printed. Accordion folded pages attached to match-book style binding with staples. View the original article on the OpenBook Blog...

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