caa a22 4500 463200292 CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-007-9037-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-007-9037-0 Candel Bormann Daniel Departamento de Filología Moderna, Colegio San José de Caracciolos, Universidad de Alcalá, C/Trinidad 3, 8801, Alcala de Henares, Spain aut Ein Bild hielt uns gefangen: The Da Vinci Code and the Humanae Vitae [Elektronische Daten] [Daniel Candel Bormann] This article analyses the understanding of sexuality and women in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and compares it with the one offered by the Catholic encyclical Humanae Vitae. It does so against the background of the four dimensions of the real as advocated by Todorov and others. The first part of the article analyses how, and explains why, by grafting women and nature on to the religious—the first via child-birth in chapters 55-58, the second via sex in chapter 74—Brown's text runs the risk of objectifying women, de-naturalising sex, and de-individuating sexual encounters. The second part of the article highlights the similarities and differences between Brown's novel and the Catholic encyclical. Both texts are shown to work in surprisingly similar ways, as they both denature sex, make much of sacrifice and sexual continence, and defend a teleological view of sex. Ultimately, however, differences prevail, as in both texts the understanding and use of teleology on the one hand, and the value conferred to individualisation on the other, differ widely, emphasising the coherence—although a radical one—of the Humanae Vitae and the lack of coherence of The Da Vinci Code. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Dan Brown nationallicence The Da Vinci Code nationallicence Literature and theology nationallicence Literature and religion nationallicence Humanae Vitae nationallicence Catholicism nationallicence Teleology nationallicence Feminism nationallicence Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/3(2007-07-01), 333-350 0028-2677 91:3<333 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9037-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9037-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Candel Bormann Daniel Departamento de Filología Moderna, Colegio San José de Caracciolos, Universidad de Alcalá, C/Trinidad 3, 8801, Alcala de Henares, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/3(2007-07-01), 333-350 0028-2677 91:3<333 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer