The situation of the text
Erotic and pornographic in B arthes's C amera L ucida
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20264016 |
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| Authors | Magnus Ullen (0000-0001-5104-1716, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 72-89 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1562 • E-ISSN: 1467-8705 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/criq.12195 |
| OpenAlex | W1627689234 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
erotica which in Gloria Steinem's words "is about mutuality" and "sexual pleasure," while still keeping the commodifying threat of pornography at bay? 3 Recent theorists of the field deny that one can, and declare "the distinction between a 'good' eroticism and a 'bad' pornography" void of interest. 4 This turn away from questions of evaluation has no doubt been highly productive to the field of porn studies, just as it has to that of cultural studies more broadly. And yet more and more people are starting to feel that despite the undeniable usefulness of this reorientation, something crucial has gone lost in the process. Readings that tease out the cultural significance of more or less sexually graphic texts can often be rewarding enough in their own right. Still, it is difficult not to experience a certain amount of fatigue if not downright boredom when repeatedly confronted with readings which, no matter how sophisticated in theory, in practice amount to little but inventories of the political consciousness of our own particular historical situation: gender, class, ethnicity, etcetera. In reading after reading we are told of the cultural significance of texts of various kinds -verbal, visual, aural -yet only rarely do we hear about the personal significance the text carries for the individual critic
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| Highly cited | No |
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