Terrible beauty: the violent aesthetic and twentieth-century literature
The violent aesthetic: an introduction -- I. Lyric poetry. Witnessing and trophy hunting: writing violence from the great war trenches -- Real violence: W. B. Yeats and the Easter Rising -- Mimetic damage: the poetry of Northern Ireland's troubles -- II. Postcolonial novels. Partition's ch...
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
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Charlottesville London
University of Virginia Press
2019
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| In: | Jahr: 2019 |
| Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift: | Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
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| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Englisch
/ Literatur
/ Gewalt (Motiv)
/ Geschichte 1900-2000
B Gewalt B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Literature
aesthetics
B Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism B Violence in literature |
| Parallele Ausgabe: | Elektronisch
Elektronisch Elektronisch |
| Zusammenfassung: | The violent aesthetic: an introduction -- I. Lyric poetry. Witnessing and trophy hunting: writing violence from the great war trenches -- Real violence: W. B. Yeats and the Easter Rising -- Mimetic damage: the poetry of Northern Ireland's troubles -- II. Postcolonial novels. Partition's children: ethnic cleansing on the Indian subcontinent -- Slow tyranny: entangled allegory in recent Nigerian novels -- III. Testimonial. "Going through with it": Holocaust memoir and the challenge of beauty -- Apartheid spectacle: race, drama, and South Africa's state of emergency "An assessment of global literature in the twentieth century--a century defined by trauma"-- |
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| Physische Details: | xvi, 304 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-4237-7 978-0-8139-4235-3 |
