The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality
by Susan Mooney
Publisher: Ohio State University Press 2008
ISBN/ASIN: 0814210821
ISBN-13: 9780814210826
Number of pages: 340
Description:
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.
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