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03825aam a2200505 i 4500 001 92778144403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201217010015 008 190416t20202020ilua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2019018289 020 $a 0810141523 020 $a 9780810141520 020 $a 0810141515 020 $a 9780810141513 035 $a (OCoLC)1107152275 040 $a INU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d NYP $d EAU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ295.C35 $b M67 2020 082 00 $a 840.9/3556 $2 23 100 1 $a Morisi, EÌve, $e author. 245 10 $a Capital letters : $b Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the death penalty / $c EÌve Morisi. 264 1 $a Evanston, Illinois : $b Northwestern University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xiv, 265 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a Flashpoints ; $v 33 520 $a "'Capital Letters' sheds new light on how literature has dealt with society's most violent legal institution, the death penalty. It investigates this question through three major French authors with markedly distinct political convictions and literary styles: Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, and Albert Camus. Working at the intersection of poetics, ethics, and law, EÌve Morisi uncovers an unexpected transhistorical dialogue both on the modern death penalty and on the ends and means of post-Revolutionary literature. She offers close textual analysis and careful contextualization of the representations of state killing that these prominent writers crafted over two centuries during which the guillotine consistently fulfilled its function. Combined with concepts forged by critics of violence such as Agamben, Foucault, and Girard, this detailed examination reveals that, despite their differences, Hugo, Baudelaire, and Camus converge in questioning the humanitarian redefinition of capital punishment dating from the late eighteenth century. Conversely, capital justice leads all three writers to interrogate the functions, tools, and limits of their art"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction. Three writers and a punishment -- New abolitionist poetics: Hugo's Le dernier jour d'un condamn? -- The death penalty, from representation to expression -- Pain and punishment: the guillotine's torture -- Words that kill in Baudelaire -- Prose praising sacrifice: Hugo, Maistre, and beyond -- Poeticized slaughter? Execution in Les fleurs du mal -- Camus's capital fiction and literary responsibility -- Ad nauseam: Camus's narrative roads to abolitionism -- Poetic accountability: critical language and its limits -- Conclusion. 600 10 $a Hugo, Victor, $d 1802-1885 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Baudelaire, Charles, $d 1821-1867 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Camus, Albert, $d 1913-1960 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Baudelaire, Charles, $d 1821-1867. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00031368 600 17 $a Camus, Albert, $d 1913-1960. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00036855 600 17 $a Hugo, Victor, $d 1802-1885. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00040981 648 7 $a 1800-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Capital punishment in literature. 650 0 $a French literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a French literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Capital punishment in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00846419 650 7 $a French literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00934688 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) ; $v 33. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317024233.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20210723014906.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=92778144403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search