Violence in literature /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY :
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing,
[2014]
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| Edition: | [First edition]. |
| Series: | Critical insights.
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Table of Contents:
- About this volume / Stacey Peebles
- On violence / Stacey Peebles
- The foundations of violence in ancient Greek literature / Thomas Palaima
- Blood, force, influence : studying the representation of violence / Stacey Peebles
- The thing and the image : violence in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Aaron Bady
- Modern war and American literature : ironic realism, satire, and escape / Ty Hawkins
- Violence in the Bible from Genesis to Job / David Mikics
- Street violence and youth in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Philip White
- Grappling with violence in Latin American literature / Núria Sabaté Llobera
- Kill lists : Sade cinema, and the language of the torturer / Lindsay Hallam
- Intimate subject(ivitie)s : race, gender, and violence in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Aretha Phiri
- Excess, (Ir)rationality, and consumerism : violence in No country fro old men and Fight club / James R. Giles
- "Bluffers and blowhards" : speaking of violence in Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's long halftime walk / Mark Bresnan
- Contemporary war narratives : story-truth, new journalisms, and why we write / Lydia Neuman
- The war in "Big two-hearted river" / Allen Josephs.