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

• मुख्य लेखक: Buch, Robert (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Johns Hopkins University Press 2010
• विषय: Literature: history & criticism
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: 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...