The pathos of the real : on the aesthetics of violence in the twentieth century /

This book is about the ambition. in a set of paradigmatic writers of the twentieth century. to simultaneously enlist and break the spell of the real--their fascination with the spectacle of violence and suffering--and the difficulties involved in capturing this kind of excess by aesthetic means.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Buch, Robert Caspar
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Colección:Rethinking theory.
Temas:
1900-1999
Reality > History > 20th century.
Pathos > History > 20th century.
Violence > History > 20th century.
Cruelty > History > 20th century.
Aesthetics, Modern > 20th century.
Réalité > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Pathos > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Violence > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Cruauté > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Esthétique > 20e siècle.
Literature: history & criticism.
Aesthetics, Modern
Cruelty
Pathos
Reality
Violence
Literature: history & criticism
dictionaries.
History
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In praise of cruelty: Bataille, Kafka, and ling'-chi
  • Fragmentary description of a disaster: Claude Simon
  • The resistance to pathos and the pathos of resistance: Peter Weiss
  • Medeamachine: the "fallout" of violence in Heiner Müller
  • Epilogue.

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