Focussing on the work of Hannah Arendt, the author traces the emergence of a critical aesthetics of judgment in a group of writers - often hard to place in the 'between' of modernism and contemporary writing - including Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, Iris Murdoch and Martha Gellhorn.
Focussing on the work of Hannah Arendt, the author traces the emergence of a critical aesthetics of judgment in a group of writers - often hard to place in the 'between' of modernism and contemporary writing - including Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, Iris Murdoch and Martha Gellhorn.
Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham. Her recent books are Placeless People: Writing, Rights and Refugees (2018) and The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Other titles include: The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (1998) and The Writing of Anxiety (2007). She is currently working on a collaborative project, Refugee Hosts, and finishing a short book, Rights and Writing: Literature in the Age of Human Rights. She is co-editor of Oxford University Press's Mid-Century Series, and has held visiting positions at Cornell University and the University of Sydney. She is a regular media commentator, and tweets about literature, history, and human rights @lyndseystonebri
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Gathering Ashes: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of Trauma Part One: Writing After Nuremberg Chapter One: 'An event that did not become an experience': Rebecca West's Nuremberg Chapter Two: The Man in the Glass Booth: Hannah Arendt's Irony Chapter Three: Fiction in Jerusalem: Muriel Spark's Idiom of Judgement Part Two: Territorial Rights Chapter Four: 'We Refugees': Hannah Arendt and the Perplexities of Human Rights Chapter Five: 'Creatures of an Impossible Time': Late Modernism, Human Rights and Elizabeth Bowen Chapter Six: The Dark Background of Difference: Love and the Refugee in Iris Murdoch Bibliography.
Introduction Gathering Ashes: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of Trauma Part One: Writing After Nuremberg Chapter One: 'An event that did not become an experience': Rebecca West's Nuremberg Chapter Two: The Man in the Glass Booth: Hannah Arendt's Irony Chapter Three: Fiction in Jerusalem: Muriel Spark's Idiom of Judgement Part Two: Territorial Rights Chapter Four: 'We Refugees': Hannah Arendt and the Perplexities of Human Rights Chapter Five: 'Creatures of an Impossible Time': Late Modernism, Human Rights and Elizabeth Bowen Chapter Six: The Dark Background of Difference: Love and the Refugee in Iris Murdoch Bibliography.
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