Novel and Censorship or Eros’ Bad Fait h
As “a prodigious laboratory of desire”, the modern novel has long been one of the chief targets of censorship. Indeed, with the advent of the modern subject and the figure of the author, the novel no longer aims at strengthening the structures of the social group but rather conveys the individual’s...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses universitaires de Rennes
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Revue LISA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/5436 |
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| Summary: | As “a prodigious laboratory of desire”, the modern novel has long been one of the chief targets of censorship. Indeed, with the advent of the modern subject and the figure of the author, the novel no longer aims at strengthening the structures of the social group but rather conveys the individual’s personal drives and desires. In order to speak freely about love – either sentimental or sexual – and to counter the effects of censorship, novelists soon started to develop more sophisticated narrative and enunciative strategies, allowing them to deny authorial responsibility while leaving textual traces which the reader could track down. Thus censorship is defined as the dialectic relationship that binds together all protagonists of a text’s production, circulation and interpretation – namely the author, the publisher, the censor and the reader – each of them claiming to be the interpreter of the Other’s desire. |
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| ISSN: | 1762-6153 |