Code: 01338441
The notion that violence can give rise to art - and that art can serve as an agent of violence - is a dominant feature of modernist literature. In this study Paul Sheehan traces the modernist fascination with violence to the middl ... more
93 €
RRP: 109.39 €
You save 16.39 €
Enter your e-mail address and once book will be available,
we will send you a message. It's that simple.
You get 233 loyalty points
The notion that violence can give rise to art - and that art can serve as an agent of violence - is a dominant feature of modernist literature. In this study Paul Sheehan traces the modernist fascination with violence to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when certain French and English writers sought to celebrate dissident sexualities and stylized criminality. Sheehan presents a panoramic view of how the aesthetics of transgression gradually mutates into an infatuation with destruction and upheaval, identifying the First World War as the event through which the modernist aesthetic of violence crystallizes. By engaging with exemplary modernists such as Joyce, Conrad, Eliot and Pound, as well as lesser-known writers including Gautier, Sacher-Masoch, Wyndham Lewis and others, Sheehan shows how artworks, so often associated with creative well-being and communicative self-expression, can be reoriented toward violent and bellicose ends.
Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general
93 €
Collection points Bratislava a 2642 dalších
Copyright ©2008-24 najlacnejsie-knihy.sk All rights reservedPrivacyCookies
Shopping cart ( Empty )