This book addresses the subject of violence as it features in celebrated modernist works from the early twentieth century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Paul Sheehan is a senior lecturer in English at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Modernism, Narrative and Humanism (2002) and the editor of Becoming Human: New Perspectives on the Inhuman Condition (2003). Most recently he has published essays in SubStance, Twentieth-Century Literature and Textual Practice, as well as book chapters on Thomas De Quincey, Cormac McCarthy and Ralph Ellison, and several articles on Samuel Beckett.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: modernism's blasted history Part I. Decadence Rising: The Violence of Aestheticism: 1. Revolution of the senses 2. Victorian sexual aesthetics 3. Culture, corruption, criminality 4. A malady of dreaming: The Picture of Dorian Gray Part II. Modernism's Breach: The Violence of Aesthetics: 5. Prologue: transgression displaced 6. No dreaming pale flowers 7. Modernist sexual politics 8. Maximum energy (like a hurricane) 9. Forbidden planet: Heart of Darkness Epilogue: traumas of the world Notes Bibliography.
Introduction: modernism's blasted history Part I. Decadence Rising: The Violence of Aestheticism: 1. Revolution of the senses 2. Victorian sexual aesthetics 3. Culture, corruption, criminality 4. A malady of dreaming: The Picture of Dorian Gray Part II. Modernism's Breach: The Violence of Aesthetics: 5. Prologue: transgression displaced 6. No dreaming pale flowers 7. Modernist sexual politics 8. Maximum energy (like a hurricane) 9. Forbidden planet: Heart of Darkness Epilogue: traumas of the world Notes Bibliography.
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