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Understanding Pornographic Fiction: Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception

Understanding Pornographic Fiction: Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception

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PhilosophyLiterary CriticismSexuality

ISBN10: 1349579793
ISBN13: 9781349579792
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: May 29 2018
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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