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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Main Author: Morisi, Ève (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Camus, Albert > 1913-1960
Baudelaire, Charles > 1821-1867
Hugo, Victor > 1802-1885
Hugo, Victor, > 1802-1885.
Camus, Albert, > 1913-1960.
Baudelaire, Charles, > 1821-1867.
Camus, Albert, > 1913-1960 > Criticism and interpretation.
Baudelaire, Charles, > 1821-1867 > Criticism and interpretation.
Hugo, Victor, > 1802-1885 > Criticism and interpretation.
Todesstrafe > Motiv
French literature.
Capital punishment in literature.
Litterature française > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature française > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Peine de mort dans la litterature.
French literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
French literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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