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Terrible beauty : the violent aesthetic and twentieth-century literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eide, Marian (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2019]
Series:Cultural frames, framing culture.
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Literature > Aesthetics.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Literature, Modern.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.