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Title: Sex, Literature and Communication.
Author : Journal of Literary Studies
Release Date : January 01, 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 219 KB

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Summary This paper addresses the question of the literary representation of the relationship between sex and communication by focusing on a number of pertinent instances in literature (and in one case cinema) where clues are afforded concerning the generation of meaning in this area of human experience. Various philosophical-theoretical perspectives are employed to shed light on the specificity of communication in a sexual context, guided by the question whether communication is more basic than sex or vice versa. It is especially the work of Kristeva that enables one, finally, to grasp sex--as represented in literature or cinema--as being comprehensible in terms of the semiotic, as opposed to the symbolic, mode of signification.