- An
expurgation of a work, also
known as a
bowdlerization, is a form of
censorship that
involves purging anything deemed noxious or
offensive from an artistic...
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Bowdler the Younger. From his name
derives the
eponym verb
bowdlerise or
bowdlerize,
meaning to
expurgate or to
censor something through the
omission of elements...
-
separate volumes, e.g. The
Fellowship of the Ring. Dyson's
actual comment,
bowdlerized in the TV version, was "Not
another ****ing Elf!" Grovier,
Kelly (29...
- the
United States "Fellow" is
substituted for "****" or "****er" in
bowdlerized or
sanitized versions of the acronym. Quote: "Designing the B-29 had...
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Thomas Hardy. It was
written in 1866 but
first published, in a
slightly bowdlerized form, in
Poems of the Past and the
Present (1901).
Thomas Hardy's "The...
- on June 12, 1972, and was
advertised in The New York
Times under the
bowdlerized title Throat. The film's po****rity
helped launch a
brief period of upper-middle...
-
cleansed of
content considered to be
inappropriate for children, or "
bowdlerized".
Historians have
generally come to
regard the
Victorian era as a time...
-
released in 2011. This show
garnered particular praise for
refusing to
bowdlerize many of the
sadder or more
unpleasant aspects of the
source works, which...
-
translator should not ****ume the role of
censor and
surreptitiously delete or
bowdlerize p****ages
merely to
please a
political or
moral interest.
Translating has...
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translations of this kind, such as that of
Edward Lane (1840, 1859), were
bowdlerized.
Unabridged and
unexpurgated translations were made,
first by John Payne...
