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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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (232 p.)
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