{"product_id":"speaking-the-unspeakable-peter-michelson-9780791412244","title":"Speaking the Unspeakable: A Poetics of Obscenity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book studies the literary and cinematic functions of the pornographic as a development from a poetics of obscenity. It focuses on the developments of French, British, and American artistic pornography since the eighteenth century. Discussing female literary figures including Hall, Wharton, Nin, \"Reage,\" Jong, and Shulman; such men as Cleland, Sade, Beardsley, Lawrence, Joyce, and Miller; and film makers such as Brakhage, Jack Smith, Bruce Conner, Bertolucci, Oshima, and Wertmuller; Michelson analyzes both the use of aesthetic pornography and the philosophical, cultural, and legal implications of its use. He proposes that realizing the obscene -in the sense of speaking the unspeakable- is the principle aesthetic function of pornography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Michelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791412245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791412244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Peter Michelson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096721957119,"sku":"9780791412244","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/speaking-the-unspeakable-peter-michelson-9780791412244","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}