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Modernism and the aesthetics of violence /
This book addresses the subject of violence as it features in celebrated modernist works from the early twentieth century.
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: modernism's blasted history
- Part I. Decadence Rising: The Violence of Aestheticism: 1. Revolution of the senses
- 2. Victorian sexual aesthetics
- 3. Culture, corruption, criminality
- 4. A malady of dreaming: The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Part II. Modernism's Breach: The Violence of Aesthetics: 5. Prologue: transgression displaced
- 6. No dreaming pale flowers
- 7. Modernist sexual politics
- 8. Maximum energy (like a hurricane)
- 9. Forbidden planet: Heart of Darkness
- Epilogue: traumas of the world
- Notes
- Bibliography.