Understanding Pornographic Fiction Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception

Titre:

Understanding Pornographic Fiction Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception

ISBN (Numéro international normalisé des livres):

9781137556769

Auteur personnel:

Nussbaum, Charles. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

PRODUCTION_INFO:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Description physique:

IX, 187 p. online resource.

Table des matières:

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

Extrait:

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.

Terme sujet:

Language and languages -- Philosophy.

Literature -- Philosophy.

Sex (Psychology).

Aesthetics.

Ethics.

Philosophy of Language.

Literary Theory.

Psychology of Gender and Sexuality.

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.

Auteur collectif ajouté:

SpringerLink (Online service)