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Understanding Pornographic Fiction - Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015) Loot Price: R1,900
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Understanding Pornographic Fiction - Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Charles Nussbaum

Understanding Pornographic Fiction - Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)

Charles Nussbaum

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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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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2015
First published: 2015
Authors: Charles Nussbaum
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 178
Edition: 1st ed. 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-55675-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
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Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
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LSN: 1-137-55675-7
Barcode: 9781137556752

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