TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gold,Lyta
TI  - Dangerous fictions: the fear of fantasy and the invention of reality 
SN  - 9781593767709 (hardcover)
AV  - PN 3347 G618d 2024
U1  - 174/.980883 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Lyta Gold :  
PB  - Soft Skull
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Novela
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - Ficción
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - United States
KW  - Moral panics
KW  - Censorship
KW  - Censura
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Literature and morals
KW  - Literatura y moral
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Literatura y sociedad
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction: Moral panics old and new -- Get a load of these crazy broads -- The victory of the nerds -- Stop making fun of our Übermenschen!!! -- Fear of a red literature -- The gentleman's club effect -- The enemy of my enemy is- -- The dramatic condition -- How to blow up reality
N2  - "Fictional stories have long been imagined to hold an uncanny power over hearts and minds. These days, everybody frets about fiction: according to the National Coalition Against Censorship, the current wave of book bans is the worst since the 1980s, and our cultural debates are consumed by questions about the politics and moral responsibility of storytelling. Can readers and viewers, at any age, be harmed by what they read and see? In Dangerous Fictions, Lyta Gold traces arguments both historical and contemporary that have labeled fiction as dark, immoral, frightening, or poisonous; within each she asks, how "dangerous" is fiction, really? And what about it provokes waves of moral panic and even censorship?"--
ER  -