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[First edition]. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 241 pages). |
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| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
About this volume / Stacey Peebles -- On violence / Stacey Peebles -- The foundations of violence in ancient Greek literature / Thomas Palaima -- Blood, force, influence : studying the representation of violence / Stacey Peebles -- The thing and the image : violence in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Aaron Bady -- Modern war and American literature : ironic realism, satire, and escape / Ty Hawkins -- Violence in the Bible from Genesis to Job / David Mikics -- Street violence and youth in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Philip White -- Grappling with violence in Latin American literature / Núria Sabaté Llobera -- Kill lists : Sade cinema, and the language of the torturer / Lindsay Hallam -- Intimate subject(ivitie)s : race, gender, and violence in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Aretha Phiri -- Excess, (Ir)rationality, and consumerism : violence in No country fro old men and Fight club / James R. Giles -- "Bluffers and blowhards" : speaking of violence in Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's long halftime walk / Mark Bresnan -- Contemporary war narratives : story-truth, new journalisms, and why we write / Lydia Neuman -- The war in "Big two-hearted river" / Allen Josephs. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This book draws together provocative essays about works that vary widely in their historical and cultural contexts, in their style and structure, and the ways that violence makes (or resists) meaning within them. It touches upon the foundations of violence in ancient Greek literature, the representation of violence, violence in Things Fall Apart, and American literature dealing with war, and delves into essays on individual works. |
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Violence in literature.
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War stories -- History and criticism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Violence in literature. (OCoLC)fst01167282
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War stories. (OCoLC)fst01170627
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Peebles, Stacey L. (Stacey Lyn), 1976- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Violence in literature. [First edition] Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2014] 9781619254091 (OCoLC)889626036 |
| ISBN |
9781619254107 (electronic bk.) |
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1619254107 (electronic bk.) |
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