The Pathos of the Real On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century
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...
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Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2010
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