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Pornography is writing about prostitutes. "Story of the eye" reveals the Prostitution of the seif at stake in the gender roles advocated by the ideologies of the Church, Capitalism, and Fascism. Bakhtin's dialogism allows us to explore the contexts of Bataille's story to portray the röle of humor in leveling the hierarchical pretensions of ideologies. Once the carnival traditions expose the explosive potential of Ms story's eroticism, the narrator's selfis laid barefor its creative sense ofnever completing the questioning of its existential Community. Pornography etymologically means "writing about prostitutes." The nature of the Prostitution implemented by pornography is what this paper will explore. In France, during the 1950s, the government prosecuted the Publishing house of Jean-Jacques Pauvert for releasing the writings of the eighteenth-century pornographer the Marquis de Sade. During the trial, Georges Bataille (1897-1962), an erstwhile Surrealist and founder of the French Journal Critique in 1946, who would himself publish L'Erotisme in 1957, testified that Sade was an important writer whose writings had to be published. Nevertheless, Pauvert was fined for its offenses against the common good. Bataille, however, was not prosecuted for bis essays about eroticism, perhaps because he provided rhetorical arguments for pornography and did
HUMOR – de Gruyter
Published: Jan 1, 1990
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