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Author Phillips, John, 1950- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjMpmgyjhBxGjDKdyjDbcX

Title Forbidden fictions : pornography and censorship in twentieth-century French literature / John Phillips.

Imprint London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 241 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index.
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Summary Annotation Phillips discusses texts by Apollinaire, Pierre Loüys, Georges Bataille, Pauline Réage, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Tony Duvert, Elizabeth Barillé and Marie Darrieussecq, engaging in different levels of critical analysis so as to emphasize intertextual and parodic elements in one case, or points of possible identification in another. TLS*BR**BR*French culture has long been perceived by the English-speaking reader as somehow more erotic than its Anglo-Saxon equivalent. Forbidden Fictions is the first English-language study devoted exclusively to the wide spectrum of French literary pornography in the twentieth century. *BR**BR*John Phillips provides a broad history of the genre and the associated moral and political issues. Among the texts examined in detail all selected for their literary or sociopolitical importance are landmark works by Apollinaire, Louÿs, Bataille, Réage, Robbe-Grillet, Arsan, and Duvert. Phillips challenges current politically correct trends in literary criticism and stereotyped censoring discourses about pornography to provide a new reading of each text and to illustrate the genres potential for social subversion. Forbidden Fictions addresses the most controversial issues of contemporary sexual politics, such as objectification, sadomasochism, homoeroticism and paedophilia, with particular emphasis on the feminist debate on pornography. In the light of current controversy over the control of pornography, this is a timely and scholarly review of the ethical, moral and social arguments surrounding the censorship of sexually explicit material.
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Subject French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Erotic literature, French -- History and criticism.
Pornography -- France.
Censorship -- France.
Censorship.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Censorship
Erotic literature, French
French literature
Pornography
France https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJd8gD4vdtqQMdQHvYqbBP
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Phillips, John, 1950- Forbidden fictions. London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999 0745312225 (DLC) 98045087 (OCoLC)39913715
ISBN 0585426600 (electronic bk.)
9780585426600 (electronic bk.)
0745312225 (hbk.)
9780745312224 (hbk.)
9781849645140
1849645140
9780745312170
0745312179
0745312179
Standard No. 9780745312170