This article compares the discourse of sibling incest evident in a corpus of fiction with the dis... more This article compares the discourse of sibling incest evident in a corpus of fiction with the discourse found in clinical, sociological and criminal literature. Whereas the former primarily regards the coupling as a bad romance, the latter presents the idea that it is unequivocally harmful. This discrepancy between the two discourses surrounding sexual relationships between brothers and sisters speaks to literary fiction's need for thwarted romances for the purposes of the literary market. A more detailed look into three novels from the corpus, Tabitha Suzuma's Forbidden (2010), Donna Tartt's The Secret History (1992) and Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale (1997) shows how this logic of sibling incest as a bad romance works in practice.
Kokkola, Lydia, Elina Valovirta and Janne Korkka 2013. Girls on the Game and Shameless Sluts: ‘K... more Kokkola, Lydia, Elina Valovirta and Janne Korkka 2013. Girls on the Game and Shameless Sluts: ‘Knowing’ about Prostitution and Adolescent Literature. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. 38(1):66-83
This article compares the discourse of sibling incest evident in a corpus of fiction with the dis... more This article compares the discourse of sibling incest evident in a corpus of fiction with the discourse found in clinical, sociological and criminal literature. Whereas the former primarily regards the coupling as a bad romance, the latter presents the idea that it is unequivocally harmful. This discrepancy between the two discourses surrounding sexual relationships between brothers and sisters speaks to literary fiction's need for thwarted romances for the purposes of the literary market. A more detailed look into three novels from the corpus, Tabitha Suzuma's Forbidden (2010), Donna Tartt's The Secret History (1992) and Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale (1997) shows how this logic of sibling incest as a bad romance works in practice.
Kokkola, Lydia, Elina Valovirta and Janne Korkka 2013. Girls on the Game and Shameless Sluts: ‘K... more Kokkola, Lydia, Elina Valovirta and Janne Korkka 2013. Girls on the Game and Shameless Sluts: ‘Knowing’ about Prostitution and Adolescent Literature. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. 38(1):66-83
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