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Sex, Literature and Censorship.(Book Review)
Publication: The Modern Language Review Publication Date: 01-OCT-03 Author: Kneale, Nick
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COPYRIGHT 2003 Modern Humanities Research Association
Sex, Literature and Censorship. By JONATHAN DOLLIMORE. Cambridge: Polity. 2001. xii + 206 pp. 50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 12.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-7456-2763-3 (pbk 0-7456-2764-1).
Few people writing today are as keenly alive as Jonathan Dollimore to the perverse relations between ethics and aesthetics. 'The idea that literature in and of itself is life-enhancing', he remarks in this dazzling and captivating book, 'has to be one of the most enduring delusions of humanist culture' (p. 121). Dollimore argues that those arbiters of taste who affirm art's timeless values by attempting to bury its destructive energies are in reality its most insidious censors. Amid some merciless debunking of the culture industry,...
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