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

"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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Main Author: Mooney, Susan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.