Terrible beauty : the violent aesthetic and twentieth-century literature /
An assessment of global literature in the twentieth century, a century defined by trauma.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Cultural frames, framing culture.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.