The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality
Subtitle: Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth Century Novel
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: April 22, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780814210826
Subjects: American - General; European - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 20th century; Censorship; Fiction; History; History and criticism; Sex in literature
Description: "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 Russian Beauty. She shows how motifs of censorship, with all its restrictions, pressures, rules, judgments, and forms of negation, became artistically embedded in the novels' plots, characters, settings, tropes, and themes. These novels contest censorship's status quo and critically explore its processes and power. This study reveals the impact of censorship on literary creation, particularly in relation to the twentieth century's growing interest in sexuality and its discourses."--Jacket.