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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Charlottesville London
University of Virginia Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
English language
/ Literature
/ Violence (Motif)
/ History 1900-2000
B Violence B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| Further subjects: | B
Literature
aesthetics
B Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism B Violence in literature |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
Electronic Electronic |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xvi, 304 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-4237-7 978-0-8139-4235-3 |
