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Author:

Eide, Marian, author.

Title:

Terrible beauty : the violent aesthetic and twentieth-century literature / Marian Eide.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xvi, 304 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Literature--Aesthetics.
Literature--Aesthetics.
Literature, Modern.
Violence in literature.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The violent aesthetic: an introduction -- I. Lyric poetry. Witnessing and trophy hunting: writing violence from the great war trenches -- Real violence: W. B. Yeats and the Easter Rising -- Mimetic damage: the poetry of Northern Ireland's troubles -- II. Postcolonial novels. Partition's children: ethnic cleansing on the Indian subcontinent -- Slow tyranny: entangled allegory in recent Nigerian novels -- III. Testimonial. "Going through with it": Holocaust memoir and the challenge of beauty -- Apartheid spectacle: race, drama, and South Africa's state of emergency.

Summary:

"An assessment of global literature in the twentieth century--a century defined by trauma"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Cultural frames, framing culture

ISBN:

0813942357
9780813942353
0813942373
9780813942377

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1080251141

LCCN:

2018046950

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)