Capital letters : Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the death penalty /

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"'Capital Letters' sheds new light on how literature has dealt with society's most violent legal institution, the death penalty. It investigates this question through three major French authors with markedly distinct political convictions and literary styles: Victor Hugo, Charles...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morisi, Ève (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020.
Colección:FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
Temas:
Hugo, Victor, > 1802-1885 > Criticism and interpretation.
Baudelaire, Charles, > 1821-1867 > Criticism and interpretation.
Camus, Albert, > 1913-1960 > Criticism and interpretation.
Baudelaire, Charles, > 1821-1867
Camus, Albert, > 1913-1960
Hugo, Victor, > 1802-1885
1800-1999
Capital punishment in literature.
French literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
French literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Peine de mort dans la littérature.
Littérature française > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature française > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Capital punishment in literature
French literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Three writers and a punishment
  • New abolitionist poetics: Hugo's Le dernier jour d'un condamn?
  • The death penalty, from representation to expression
  • Pain and punishment: the guillotine's torture
  • Words that kill in Baudelaire
  • Prose praising sacrifice: Hugo, Maistre, and beyond
  • Poeticized slaughter? Execution in Les fleurs du mal
  • Camus's capital fiction and literary responsibility
  • Ad nauseam: Camus's narrative roads to abolitionism
  • Poetic accountability: critical language and its limits
  • Conclusion: Ink and the scaffold.

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