Deadly Musings : : Violence and Verbal Form in American Fiction /

Deadly Musings : : Violence and Verbal Form in American Fiction / / Michael Kowalewski.

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"Violent scenes in American fiction are not only brutal, bleak, and gratuitous," writes Michael Kowalewski. "They are also, by turns, comic, witty, poignant, and sometimes, strangely enough, even terrifyingly beautiful." In this fascinating tour of American fiction, Kowalewski ex...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Kowalewski, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1993]
©1993
Year of Publication:1993
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION: Reading Violence, Making Sense
  • CHAPTER I. Invisible Ink
  • CHAPTER II. James Fenimore Cooper
  • CHAPTER III. Poe's Violence
  • CHAPTER IV. Violence and Style in Stephen Crane's Fiction
  • CHAPTER V. The Purity of Execution in Hemingway's Fiction
  • CHAPTER VI. Faulkner
  • CHAPTER VII. Flannery O'Connor
  • CHAPTER VIII. "The Late, Late, Late Show"
  • POSTSCRIPT: Style, Violence, American Fiction
  • Notes
  • Index

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