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04252aam a2200577Mi 4500 001 A0E0EBC4E9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170203020341 008 160818t20172017nyua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2016020328 020 $a 1501325280 020 $a 9781501325281 020 $a 1501325299 020 $a 9781501325298 035 $a (OCoLC)966895395 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 00 $a PN56.V53 $b W49 2016 082 00 $a 809/.933552 $2 23 084 $a LIT006000 $a LIT006000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Wexler, Joyce Piell, $d 1947- $e author. 245 10 $a Violence without God : $b the rhetorical despair of twentieth-century writers / $c Joyce Wexler. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc., $c 2017. 300 $a ix, 204 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a " As twentieth-century writers confronted the political violence of their time, they were overcome by rhetorical despair. Unspeakable acts left writers speechless. They knew that the atrocities of the century had to be recorded, but how? A dead body does not explain itself, and the narrative of the suicide bomber is not the story of the child killed in the blast. In the past, communal beliefs had justified or condemned the most horrific acts, but the late nineteenth-century crisis of belief made it more difficult to come to terms with the meaning of violence. In this major new study, Joyce Wexler argues that this situation produced an aesthetic dilemma that writers solved by inventing new forms. Although Symbolism, Expressionism, Modernism, Magic Realism, and Postmodernism have been criticized for turning away from public events, these forms allowed writers to represent violence without imposing a specific meaning on events or claiming to explain them. Wexler's investigation of the way we think and write about violence takes her across national and period boundaries and into the work of some of the greatest writers of the century, among them Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Alfred DoÂblin, GuÂnter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, and W. G. Sebald. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Third year undergraduates and above studying twentieth-century literature, modernism, comparative literature, literature and culture"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Problem -- 1. Symbolism in a Secular Age -- 2. T. S. Eliot's Expressionist Angst -- 3. D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love and Men at War -- 4. Ulysses, the Mythical Method, and Magic Realism -- 5. The German Route from Ulysses to Magic Realism -- 6. How to Write about the Holocaust -- Epilogue: The End of the Secular Age -- Bibliography -- Index. 650 0 $a Violence in literature. 650 0 $a Atrocities in literature. 650 0 $a Despair in literature. 650 0 $a Rhetoric and psychology. 650 0 $a Authors $y 20th century $x Psychology. 650 0 $a Authors $y 21st century $x Psychology. 650 0 $a Literature, Modern $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature, Modern $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Atrocities in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00820732 650 7 $a Authors $x Psychology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821716 650 7 $a Despair in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00891413 650 7 $a Literature, Modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000172 650 7 $a Rhetoric and psychology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01096980 650 7 $a Violence in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01167282 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Wexler, Joyce Piell, 1947- author. $t Violence without God $d New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 $z 9781501325311 $w (DLC) 2016039152 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180106015040.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170304032627.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A0E0EBC4E9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search