Forbidden fictions : pornography and censorship in twentieth-century French literature / John Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, John, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--20th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Erotic literature, French--History and criticism.

Erotic literature, French.

Pornography--France.

Pornography.

Censorship--France.

Censorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Phillips discusses texts by Apollinaire, Pierre Louys, Georges Bataille, Pauline Reage, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Tony Duvert, Elizabeth Barille and Marie Darrieussecq, engaging in different levels of critical analysis so as to emphasize intertextual and parodic elements in one case, or points of possible identification in another.' TLSFrench culture has long been perceived by the English-speaking reader as somehow more 'erotic' than its Anglo-Saxon equivalent. Forbidden Fictions is the first English-language study devoted exclusively to the wide spectrum of French literary pornography in the twentieth century. John Phillips provides a broad history of the genre and the associated moral and political issues. Among the texts examined in detail - all selected for their literary or sociopolitical importance - are landmark works by Apollinaire, Louys, Bataille, Reage, Robbe-Grillet, Arsan, and Duvert. Phillips challenges current politically correct trends in literary criticism and stereotyped censoring discourses about pornography to provide a new reading of each text and to illustrate the genre's potential for social subversion. Forbidden Fictions addresses the most controversial issues of contemporary sexual politics, such as objectification, sadomasochism, homoeroticism and paedophilia, with particular emphasis on the feminist debate on pornography. In the light of current controversy over the control of pornography, this is a timely and scholarly review of the ethical, moral and social arguments surrounding the censorship of sexually explicit material.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Note on Translations/ Editions

1 The Erotic Novel and Censorship in Twentieth-Century France

Definitions

Literary Eroticism in Twentieth-Century France

Censorship in France: a Brief History

Chapter Contents

Concluding Remarks

2 Pornography, Poetry, Parody: Guillaume Apollinaire's Les Onze Mille Verges

Textual Imagery

The Erotic Carnaval

3 Sexual and Textual Excess: Pierre Louÿs's Trois Filles de leur mere

Conclusion

4 Masochism and Fetishism: Georges Bataille's Histoire de l'oeil

Analysis of the Text

5 'O, Really!': Pauline Réage's Histoire d'O

6. Emmanuelle and the Sexual Liberation of Women

Point of view

Intertextuality

7 Progressive Slidings of Identity: Alain Robbe-Grillet's Projet pour une revolution a New York

Sado-eroticism - art or ethics?

Voyeurism

Rape and Sexual Violence

Implication of the Male Reader

8 Homotextuality: Tony Duvert's Recidive

Recidive: Publication and Reception

Themes and Forms

Discontinuity

Self-referentiality

Objects of Desire

Sexual Violence

9 'Enfin, une érotique féminine?': Two Contemporary Novels by Women

Corps de jeune fille by Élisabeth Barillé

Truismes by Marie Darrieussecq

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Select Bibliography

1. Primary Texts

2. Secondary and Critical Reading

Index

Acéphale 204

Adams, Parveen

64

207

age of consent 155

AIDS

10

165

ambivalence 147-8

Amelinckx, Frans 27

anti-censorship feminists

19

198

Apollinaire, Guillaume

8

17

21

193

Alcools 199

Calligrammes 26

Calligrammes 30.

Exploits d'un jeune Don Juan 25

Les Onze Mille Verges 3

Les Onze Mille Verges 8

Les Onze Mille Verges 17

Les Onze Mille Verges 21

Les Onze Mille Verges 25-42

Les Onze Mille Verges 198-201

Rhénanes 35

Aragon, Louis

26

Le Con d'Irène 3

Arsan, Emmanuelle

9

11

Emmanuelle 9-10

Emmanuelle 21

Emmanuelle 104-28

Emmanuelle 151

Bakhtin, Mikhaïl 40-2

Barillé, Élisabeth

Corps de jeune fille 12

Barthes, Roland

1

36

50

61-2

67

70

71

Bataille, Georges

23

Histoire de l'œil 3

Histoire de l'œil 9

Histoire de l'œil 17

Histoire de l'œil 21

Histoire de l'œil 60-85

Histoire de l'œil 88

Histoire de l'œil 96

L'„il pinéal 204

L'Érotisme 62

L'Érotisme 204

Le Bleu du ciel 204-5

Ma mere 85

Ma mere 204

Ma mere 207

Madame Edwarda 204

Madame Edwarda 205

Madame Edwarda 206

Madame Edwarda 207

Baudelaire Les Fleurs du mal

5

15

125-6

bawdy 31

Belsey, Catherine 212-13

Berg, Jean de L'Image

3

89

104

205

216

Bernanos 219

bestiality 3

Bildungsroman

122-3

173-4

215

bisexuality 147

Blanchot 61

Boccaccio 39

bonnes mœurs 5

Borel, Adrian 204

Breton, André

Brigade Mondaine

88

Brochier, Jean-Jacques 104

Brulotte, Gaëtan 213

buggery 3

Butler, Judith

7

166

219 see

Butor, Michel 91

Camus, Renaud 222

carnaval 39-42 see also

Carter, Angela 6

castration

75-7

80-2

fear of 115

catharsis

132-3

143

censorship

13-21

21-4

183

184

185

and de Gaulle 152

of homosexual text 218-19

Cirlot, J.E.A Dictionary of Symbols 218

Cixous Hélène

181.

Cocteau

149

219

Colette 3

comic 53 see also humour

commedia del arte

39

180

225

Commission de protection de l'enfance et de la jeunesse 25

Commission du Livre 88

coprophilia 3

Coïncidences

criminality 159

Crébillon fils Le Sopha 201

cunnilingus 3

Darnton, Robert

14

197

Darrieussecq, Marie

Truismes 12

Truismes 21

Truismes 182-93

Truismes 225-6

Decadent period 8

Defez, René Les Deux Rives 87

Deforges, Régine 17

Deleuze, Gilles

66-9

78-9

84

Anti-Oedipus 165

Deleuzian reading 81

Deneau, Daniel 132-3

Desnos, Robert 26

Diderot Les Bijoux indiscrets 23

discontinuity, in Duvert 156-8

distancing effect 137 et seq.

Dolto, Françoise 213

Duras, Marguerite

161

L'homme assis dans le couloir 215

Duvert, Tony

Abécédaire malveillant 149

L'Enfant au masculine 154-5

L'Enfant au masculine 162

Le Bon sexe illustré 162

Le Bon sexe illustré 220

Le Voyageur 220

Paysage de fantaisie 149

Récidive 10

Récidive 21

Récidive 149-72

Récidive 218-24

Dworkin, Andrea

18-19

47

76

89-90

Eco, Umberto 200

écriture féminine 181

Éditions de Minuit

129

érotique féminine 173-93

effet de réel

59

146

eighteenth century 7

ejaculation

182

female 77-8

Emmanuelle films

105

211

Enfer

194

epigraphs in Emmanuelle 124-5

erotic, definition of 4-7

exoticism in the erotic text 106

Father's Law 63

fellatio

178-9

femme castratrice

206

fetishism

48

69-70

77

83

85

147

fin de siècle 193

Flaubert Madame Bovary

Fletcher, John 131.

focalisation

54

107

116

214

forbidden, definition of 188

Foucault, Michel

60-1

150

Histoires de la sexualité 22-3

Fournier, Alain

Le Grand Meaulnes 161-2

Le Grand Meaulnes 224

Frappier-Mazur, Lucienne

13

Fraser, John 217

free indirect speech

French Revolution 15

Freud

63

80

178

213

223

Freudian perspective 161

Gallimard 87

Gaulle, Charles de

16

Gaullism 152

Genet, Jean

156

Genette, Gérard

91

200

202-3

208

Gide, André 221-2

Girodias, Maurice

16-17

18

22

Goujon, Jean-Paul

44

202

Green, Julien 219

Guattari, Félix Anti-Oedipus 165

Guyotat, Pierre Éden, Éden, Éden

33

152

Harrison, Nicholas

Hartwig, Julia 199

Heath, Stephen 44

Heathcote, Hughes and Williams 166

Heathcote, Owen 222

Hocquenghem, Guy 165

Holmes, Diana 214

homosexuality 149-72

homotextuality

171

Hughes, Alex 222 see also

humour

51

133-4

179

Hussey, Andrew 206

Hérédia 46

identity

of author 86-90

of text 91 et seq.

imagery

in Emmanuelle 107-116

in Emmanuelle 107-109

in Les Onze Mille Verges 32-3

in Les Onze Mille Verges 36 et seq.

religious in Histoire d'O 98-9

incongruity, comic 35

Index Librorum Prohibitorum [Index of Prohibited Works]

Internet 193

intersubjectivity 147

intertextuality

121-7

144-5

161-3

177

Irigaray, Luce

181

Spéculum de l'autre femme 97

isms 187

Itzin, Catherine

4

195

Jouhandeau, Marcel 219

Judeo-Christianity

110-11

126

Kafalenos, Emma 145

Kafka Metamorphosis 183

Kipnis, Laura 84.

Klossowski, Pierre

212

Les Lois de l'hospitalité 3

Koch, Gertrude 115

Kristeva, Julia

40-1

61

Labarthe, André S. 104

Lacanian perspective

101

147-8

Laclos

34

Les Liaisons dangereuses 197

Leduc, Violette 3

legal sanctions

against homosexuality 150

paedophilia/pederasty 155

lesbianism

libertinage 34

Lindon, Jérôme

loi Gayssot 22

Lord Auch 60

Losfeld, Eric

128

Louÿs, Pierre

La Femme et le pantin 202

Les Chansons de Bilitis 203

Trois Filles de leur mère 3

Trois Filles de leur mère 9

Trois Filles de leur mère 21

Trois Filles de leur mère 43-59

Trois Filles de leur mère 201-3

Lyotard, Jean-François 151

MacKinnon, Catherine

Mainil, Jean 42

male gaze

174

177 see also

Mandiargues, André Pieyre de

Mandiargues, André Pieyre de 10

Mandiargues, André Pieyre de 88

Mandiargues, André Pieyre de 104

Mandiargues, André Pieyre de 194

Marcus, Stephen 100

Marcuse, Herbert 144

masochism

49

63-4

67-9

Maspero, François 17

masturbation

181-2

Mauriac 219

metamorphosis 186 et seq.

metapornography 134

Michelson, Peter

27

30

99

100

209

Miller Test 5

Miller, Henry

millénariste 225

mise en abyme

57

175

203

mise en scène

137

139

140

142

MLA catalogue 219

money-shot 77

Morrissette, Bruce

131

217

Mother's Law

79

murder 3

méconnaissance

176

Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita

196

narcissism

189

narratee

54-7

92 et seq.

narrative structure 121-2

narrative voice

116-18

narrator

54-6

58-9

94 et seq.

Naturalists 46.

necrophilia 33.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-234) and index.

ISBN:

9781849645140

1849645140

9780585426600

0585426600

OCLC:

923330163