The Pathos of the Real On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century

• Auteur principal: Buch, Robert (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Johns Hopkins University Press 2010
• Sujets: Literature: history & criticism
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book is about the ambition, in a set of paradigmatic writers of the twentieth century, to simultaneously enlist and break the spell of the real-their fascination with the spectacle of violence and suffering-and the difficulties involved in capturing this kind of excess by aesthetic means.The wo...