02851cam a2200541 i 4500 23729516 BJBSDDR 20250429150015.0 ta 240612s2024 nyu b 000 0 eng 2024025624 9781593767709 (hardcover) 1593767706 (hardcover) 9781593767716 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC DLC eng pcc n-us--- PN 3347 G618d 2024 174/.980883 Gold, Lyta 41679 Dangerous fictions : the fear of fantasy and the invention of reality / Lyta Gold. First Soft Skull edition. Lyta Gold : Soft Skull, 2024. xxxviii, 307 pages ; 22 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. "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?"-- Provided by publisher. Fiction Moral and ethical aspects. Fiction Political aspects. Novela Historia y crítica 4146 Ficción Historia y crítica 28074 Books and reading United States. Moral panics United States. Censorship United States. Censura Estados Unidos 5492 Literature and morals United States. Literatura y moral Estados Unidos 41743 Literature and society United States. Literatura y sociedad Estados Unidos 7567 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK sba 123195 123195 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-04-24 0 PN 3347 G618d 2024 00000191526 2025-04-24 00:00:00 1 2025-04-24 BK