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Terrible beauty : the violent aesthetic and twentieth-century literature /
"An assessment of global literature in the twentieth century--a century defined by trauma"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Cultural frames, framing culture.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.