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Sensing Violence: Reading with the Marquis de Sade

Sensing Violence: Reading with the Marquis de Sade

What does reading fictional violence do to us as readers? To find out, this provocative and original book turns to the works of an author synonymous with sexual violence: the Marquis de Sade. Drawing on psychology, cognitive literary studies, and empirical research, it argues that reading is a fundamentally embodied act – and one that implicates us far more than we might like to think in fictional depictions of violence. ...
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Keywords:
Violence, LIT025000, Translation Studies, JMR, SOC051000, DSB, Pedagogy, DSBH, LIT007000, Embodied Cognition, LIT004150, DSK, PSY008000, LIT004290, Reader Response, JBFK, Marquis de Sade
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Open (Access) Textbook
Date Added to MERLOT:
September 25, 2025
Date Modified in MERLOT:
September 25, 2025
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College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
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English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

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