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Speaking the unspeakable : a poetics of obscenity /

Main Author: Michelson, Peter.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1993.
Series:SUNY series, the margins of literature
Subjects:
Erotic literature > History and criticism.
Erotic films > History and criticism.
Pornography > Aesthetics.
Littérature érotique > Histoire et critique.
Films érotiques > Histoire et critique.
Pornographie > Esthétique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Gay & Lesbian.
Erotic films.
Erotic literature.
Pornographie.
Literatur.
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=8442
Table of Contents:
  • A note on usage
  • The history of sexuality and poetics
  • Pornographic ways and means
  • Decadence and the poetics of obscenity
  • Unspeakable moral rhetorics
  • An unspeakably tragic ethos
  • The anarchy connection
  • Comic catharsis
  • Women and pornorotics
  • Unspeakable spectacle spectacle, the movies
  • Obscenity and the unbearable law of liberalism.

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