Understanding Pornographic Fiction Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception
Description
This work defends two main theses. First, modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful arousal; and second, that its emergence owes as much to Puritan Protestantism and its inner- or this-worldly asceticism as does the emergence of modern rationalized capitalism.
Keywords
PhilosophyLanguageLiterary CriticismSemiotics & TheoryPsychologySocial PsychologyAestheticsEthics & Moral PhilosophyHuman Sexuality
2015Book
Author(s)Charles Nussbaum
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137556752
LanguageEnglish
