George Steiner , 'Night Words ' (1965), in Language and Silence (London: Penguin, 1968),95.
2.
Quoted in Francis Barker, The Tremulous Private Body ( London: Methuen,1984), 3. 3. Valerie Solanas, S.C.U.M. Manifesfo (London: Olympia Press,1971), 5.
3.
Susan Griffin, Pornography and Silence (London: The Women's Press, 1981), 249, 185.
4.
Freedom (Vo1.47, No.3, April 1986), 9. For more extensive contributions to the pornography debate by feminists against censorship, see Linda Williams, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the 'Frenzy of the Visible ' (London: Pandora, 1990) and Lynne Segal and Mary McIntosh (eds), Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate (London: Virago, 1992).
5.
Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will (London: Penguin , 1976).
6.
Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974), 288-9, 250-1.
7.
Ibid., 254.
8.
Ibid., 46, 47-8, 196, 201, 219.
9.
Wilhelm Reich , 'Preface to Third Edition' (1942) of The Mass Psychology of Fascism (London: Souvenir Press, 1982), xi.
10.
John Calder (ed.), A William Burroughs Reader (London: Picador , 1982),9-10.
11.
Henry Miller , Tropic of Cancer (Paris: Obelisk Press, 1960),7-8.
12.
Henry Miller , 'The Golden Age' (from The Cosmological Eye, 1939), in Joan Mellen (ed.), The World of Luis Buñuel (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978), 174-5.
13.
Robert Short , Dada and Surrealism (London : Octopus Books,1980),160-9.
14.
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (London: Picador , 1984), 475, 477, 331, 432-3, 491.
15.
D.M. Thomas, The White Hotel (London: Penguin , 1981),14-15, 25,26,30.
16.
Ibid., 219-22.
17.
Milan Kundera , The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (London: Penguin,1983 ), 233.
18.
George Frankl , The Failure of the Sexual Revolution (London: Kahn & Averill, 1974), 47, 59, 60, 60-1, 95,107,123,107.
19.
George Steiner (1968), (Note 1), 91,95,101,93.
20.
Ibid., 99.
21.
Arthur Rimbaud , 'Letter 15 May 1871', Complete Works, ed., W. Fowlie (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1966 ), 305.
22.
Susan Sontag , 'The Pornographic Imagination' ( 1967), in Bataille, Story of the Eye (London : Marion Boyars, 1979), 104, 116-17.
23.
Stephen Heath , The Sexual Fix (London: Macmillan, 1982), 149,150,152,154,126, 117.
24.
André Breton , What is Surrealism?, ed. F. Rosemont (London: Pluto Press , 1978), xvi, 3, 8, 26, 39, 43,125,132,139,194.
25.
Ibid., 160.
26.
J. Mellen (1978), (Note 13), 337.
27.
'La notion de dépensé' can be found in G. Bataille, Oeuvres Complètes, 8 vols (Paris: Gallimard, 1970ff), I, 302-20, and La Part maudite in volume VII, also published separately (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1967).
28.
Roland Barthes, Images, Music, Text, ed. S. Heath (London: Fontana, 1977), translator's note.
29.
Contre-attaque, in G. Bataille (1970), I, 382.
30.
'Review of André Malraux's Ln Condition humaine', ibid., I, 373.
31.
L'Anus solaire, ibid., I, 85-6.
32.
'Humain trop humain', quoted in Jacques Chatain, Georges Bataille (Paris: Seghers, 1973 ),137.
33.
Acéphale, in G. Bataille 1970, I, 644.
34.
André Breton, Second Manifesto of Surrealism, in Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,1972),184.
35.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Situations I (Paris: Gallimard, 1947),187.
36.
J. Chatain (1973),150.
37.
Philippe Sollers (ed.), Bataille (Paris: 10/18, 1973), 282.
38.
G. Bataille (1979),111.
39.
G. Bataille, Madame Edwarda, Le Mort, Histoire de l' œil (Paris : Pauvert, 1977),16, 22, 16-17.
40.
Ibid., 35, 53.
41.
John Hoyles, 'Georges Bataille 1897-1962: Jouissance and Revolution', in F. Barker, et al., 1936: The Sociology of Literature, Volume One - The Politics of Modernism ( University of Essex,1979),124.
42.
G. Bataille (1970), 1, 187.
43.
Luis Buñuel, My Last Breath (London: Fontana , 1985),122.
44.
J. Chatain (1973), (Note 33),137-8,153-4,165-6.
45.
Roland Barthes , 'The Metaphor of the Eye' (1963 ), in G. Bataille (1979), 119ff, (Note 23).
46.
G.Bataille (1979), 10.
47.
Ibid., 34.
48.
Ibid., 54.
49.
Ibid.
50.
Ibid., 61-2
51.
Ibid, 67.
52.
Erica Jong, Fear of Flying (London: Panther,1974), 261.
53.
Jean-Luc Godard , Weekend/Wind from the East ( London: Lorrimer, 1972), 23-4, 94-6,104-5.
54.
R. Short (1980), (Note 14), 130.
55.
Ibid., 166-7.
56.
A. Breton (1978), (Note 25),166-7.
57.
The Observer, 6 April 1986.
58.
Poem by Margaret Atwood, in Rosalind Coward, Female Desire (London: Paladin, 1984 ),249.
59.
Quoted in A. Vogel (1974),5.
60.
Some of the material in sections II and III of this article appeared originally in F. Barker (1979),105-32, (Note 42).
