more extensive and unaffected pleasure

[lotesse]

Why, when discussing eighteenth-nineteenth(twentieth-)century anti-novel rhetoric, does no one address the discursive parallels with injunctions against onanism/masturbation? (and does anyone know of a book that does? because I would totally read that book.)

Comments

[ineptshieldmaid]

Well, yes, but better Sedgwick than Catherine Driscoll!

[ithiliana]

Hadn't heard of Driscoll before now, although my general rule is "better Sedgwick than just about 99% of everybody else, WOOTZ*. Why yes, I tend toward fangirlishness my own self!

[ineptshieldmaid]

Driscoll is... not too bad, really. I just have METHODOLOGY ISSUES. I prefer my acafen to be literary scholars or historians, and I have ISSUES with cultural theory. Driscoll's article 'The pornography of romance and the romance of pornography' is rooly rooly interesting but she *doesn't cite things*. She keeps telling me things I know - like, say, fanfiction crosses the genre boundaries of romance and pornography - but NOT GIVING ME CITATIONS. I know it's true, but I still want to see her working!

[ithiliana]

p.s. OMG, great icon!!!!!!

[ineptshieldmaid]

:D thank you!