Deadly Musings : Violence and Verbal Form in American Fiction.

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"Violent scenes in American fiction are not only brutal, bleak, and gratuitous," writes Michael Kowalewski. "They are also, by turns, comic, witty, poignant, and sometimes, strangely enough, even terrifyingly beautiful." In this fascinating tour of American fiction, Kowalewski ex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kowalewski, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Temas:
American fiction > History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Literary style.
Literary form.
Roman américain > Histoire et critique.
Violence dans la littérature.
Style littéraire.
Genres littéraires.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Literary form
Literary style
Violence in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Violent scenes in American fiction are not only brutal, bleak, and gratuitous," writes Michael Kowalewski. "They are also, by turns, comic, witty, poignant, and sometimes, strangely enough, even terrifyingly beautiful." In this fascinating tour of American fiction, Kowalewski examines incidents ranging from scalpings and torture in The Deerslayer to fish feeding off human viscera in To Have and Have Not, to show how highly charged descriptive passages bear on major issues concerning a writer's craft. Instead of focusing on violence as a socio-cultural phenomenon, he explores how writers inclu.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (312 pages)
ISBN:9781400821174
1400821177

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