Literature and Pornography: a textual and contextual study of Dutch novels in the 1960s and 1970s.

The interaction between pornography and modern fiction has rarely been examined in Dutch literary studies. The present proposal seeks to remedy this by focusing on a corpus of pornographic novels from the 60s and 70s written by renowned authors (Ferron, Geeraerts, Heeresma en Krijgelmans) who represent different forms of literature. The aim is twofold: (1) to contextualize these pornographic texts and determine their institutional position in the cultural and literary field, and (2) to determine, through cultural narratology, whether the pornographic novels by Ferron, Geeraerts, Heeresma and Krijgelmans confirm or transcend textual and ideological stereotypes and scripts. In doing so, an integrated narrotology will be developed, enabling the analysis of narratives in the margins of the literary field. More generally, the project shows the intrinsic (textual/narrative) and extrinsic (cultural/ideological) aspects of beliefs and views on the difference between literature and non-literature.