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'In the arts generally and in literature in particular, depictions of sex are never a mere representation of life-they are more like a substitute for it, an alternative to it. They often express desires which cannot find fulfilment in reality, and thus are entrusted to the imagination by which, for all their 'baser' nature, they are turned, or sublimated, into something more acceptable to society, something that can appear on a canvas or a sheet of paper and relieve the artist's, as well as the viewer's frustration.' (p. 61)
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Sex and Literature

Subjects:
- Eat Me 1995 single work novel
- Nightpictures 1997 single work novel
- Praise 1992 single work novel
- What I Have Written 1993 single work novel
- Coonardoo : The Well in the Shadow 1928 single work novel
- Capricornia : A Novel 1938 single work novel
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