The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality: Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth Century Novel
by Susan Mooney
The Ohio State University Press, 2008 Cloth: 978-0-8142-1082-6 Library of Congress Classification PN3352.S48M66 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 809.393538
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Susan Mooney is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of South Florida.
REVIEWS
“Susan Mooney’s excellent book is a valuable contribution to current criticism on the ethics of reading. Her research is exhaustive and her analysis deeply satisfying. I found this book to be well conceived, superbly researched, convincingly argued, and richly suggestive: a work of sound scholarship that has deep implication for the way we read and think about twentieth-century fiction.”—Sebastian D. G. Knowles, professor of English, The Ohio State University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Preface: Sexuality in Literature: Toward an Ethics
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Sense of Censoring
Chapter 1. Censorship: Political and Theoretical Structures
Chapter 2. Circean Censoring: Joyce¿s Theatre of Judgment in Ulysses
Chapter 3. Lolita: American Mimetic Fantasy, Ethical Reading, and Censoring Narrative
Chapter 4. The Masochistic Pleasure of Censoring Modes of Fantasy: Alienation, Cancer, and Judgment in Tiempo de silencio
Chapter 5. Apocalyptic Beauty, Russian Sublimity: Viktor Erofeev¿s Russkaia krasavitsa
Chapter 6. Conclusion. Comparative Reflections
Appendix. Summaries of Novels¿ Historical Censorship
Works Cited
Index
The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality: Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth Century Novel
by Susan Mooney
The Ohio State University Press, 2008 Cloth: 978-0-8142-1082-6
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Susan Mooney is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of South Florida.
REVIEWS
“Susan Mooney’s excellent book is a valuable contribution to current criticism on the ethics of reading. Her research is exhaustive and her analysis deeply satisfying. I found this book to be well conceived, superbly researched, convincingly argued, and richly suggestive: a work of sound scholarship that has deep implication for the way we read and think about twentieth-century fiction.”—Sebastian D. G. Knowles, professor of English, The Ohio State University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Preface: Sexuality in Literature: Toward an Ethics
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Sense of Censoring
Chapter 1. Censorship: Political and Theoretical Structures
Chapter 2. Circean Censoring: Joyce¿s Theatre of Judgment in Ulysses
Chapter 3. Lolita: American Mimetic Fantasy, Ethical Reading, and Censoring Narrative
Chapter 4. The Masochistic Pleasure of Censoring Modes of Fantasy: Alienation, Cancer, and Judgment in Tiempo de silencio
Chapter 5. Apocalyptic Beauty, Russian Sublimity: Viktor Erofeev¿s Russkaia krasavitsa
Chapter 6. Conclusion. Comparative Reflections
Appendix. Summaries of Novels¿ Historical Censorship
Works Cited
Index