The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality : Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth-Century Novel /

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"In The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality: Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth Century Novel, Susan Mooney extensively examines four modernist and postmodernist novels that prompted in their day harsh external censorship because of their sexual content - Ulysses, Lolita, Time of Silence, and Ru...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mooney, Susan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Roman.
Roman
Erotik > Motiv
Sex in literature.
Fiction.
Censorship.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Sexualite dans la litterature.
Censorship > History > 20th century.
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Sexuality in Literature: Toward an Ethics
  • Introduction. The Sense of Censoring
  • Ch. 1. Censorship: Political and Theoretical Structures
  • Ch. 2. Circean Censoring: Joyce's Theater of Judgment in Ulysses
  • Ch. 3. Lolita: American Mimetic Fantasy, Ethical Reading, and Censoring Narrative
  • Ch. 4. The Masochistic Pleasure of Censoring Modes of Fantasy: Alienation, Cancer, and Judgment in Tiempo de silencio
  • Ch. 5. Apocalyptic Beauty, Russian Sublimity: Viktor Erofeev's Russkaia krasavitsa
  • Conclusion: Comparative Reflections
  • Appendix. Summaries of Novels' Historical Censorship.

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