Beauty, Violence, Representation (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Dickson, Lisa A.; Romanets, Maryna

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature, visual art, theatre, film, and music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134101993
• Artikelnr.: 40882688

Autorenporträt

Lisa A. Dickson is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Maryna Romanets is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Beauty, Representation, Violence Lisa Dickson & Maryna
Romanets Part I: Histories 1. "Þus for thy goode I shedde my bloode":
Violence and Beauty in the Late Medieval English Biblical Cycles Leanne
Groeneveld 2. Staging Beauty; or, A History of Violence: Rending the
Aesthetic in Jeffrey Hatcher's Compleat Female Stage Beauty Deneen Senasi
3. Beauty, Violence, and the East: Paradigms of Femininity in Eighteenth-
and Early Nineteenth-Century British Women's Oriental Narratives Marianna
D'Ezio 4. "Hearts as innocent as hers": The Drowned Woman in Victorian
Literature and Art Lynn Alexander Part II: Aesthetics 5. Violence and
Beauty: Jacques Lacan's Antigone Andrew Slade 6. "All beauty must die": The
Aesthetics of Murder, from Thomas De Quincey to Nick Cave David McInnis 7.
Environmentality and Air Travel Disasters: Representing the Violence of
Plane Crashes Christopher Schaberg Part III: Resistance 8. Deconstructing
Neoliberalism: Sledgehammering the End of History Robert Bennett 9. A Queer
Craving: Muscle and the Dynamics of Beauty, Homoerotic Desire, and
Sadomasochism in Japanese Gay Pink Cinema Mark DeStephano 10. Subversion of
the Violent Gaze: Sins Invalid and the Aesthetics of Disabled Bodies Tara
Wood 11. Coming Home from Iraq: Women Warriors and Feminine Vistas of
Violence Elizabeth Bonjean