Understanding pornographic fiction : sex, violence, and self-deception /

Understanding Pornographic Fiction seeks to defend two main theses. First, that modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful arousal (self-deceptive, because it indulges desires virtually whose satisfaction in actuality would tend to clash wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nussbaum, Charles, 1946-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Subjects:	Erotic literature > History and criticism. Self-deception in literature. Literature and morals. Fiction > History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics. PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality.

Table of Contents:

1: The Protestant Ethic and Modern Western Pornographic Fiction
2: Literary Discourse and Pragmatic Implicature
3: Pornographic Fiction, Implicature, and Imaginative Resistance
4: Pornographic Fiction and Personal Integrity.