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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: 1137556757
ISBN13: 9781137556752
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 25 2015
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.50 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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