Forgetting Lot's Wife : On Destructive Spectatorship.

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Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot?s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harries, Martin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Influence (Psychology)
Violence.
Suffering.
Audiences > Psychology.
Spectators > Psychology.
Memory.
Recollection (Psychology)
Influence (Psychologie)
Souffrance.
Spectateurs > Psychologie.
Rappel (Psychologie)
violence.
Audiences > Psychology
Memory
Suffering
Violence
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot?s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all lead back to the story of Lot?s wife: looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, she turns into a pillar of salt. This biblical story of punishment and transformation, a nexus of sexuality, sight, and cities, becomes the template for the modern fear that looking back at dis.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (310 pages)
ISBN:9780823227358
0823227359

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