Catherine Toal The Entrapments of Form: Cruelty and Modern Literature 9780823269341

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Автор: Catherine Toal
Название: The Entrapments of Form: Cruelty and Modern Literature
ISBN: 9780823269341
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литература: история и критика

Литературоведение: Общие вопросы

ISBN-10: 0823269345
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 184
Вес: 0.41 кг.
Дата издания: 01.03.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 155 x 18
Ключевые слова: Literature: history & criticism
Подзаголовок: Cruelty and modern literature
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Arguing that cruelty acquires a new meaning in modernity, The Entrapments of Form follows its evolution through exchanges between French and American literature over the contradictions of Enlightenment (slavery, genocide, libertine aristocratic privilege). Catherine Toal traces Edgar Allan Poe’s influence on the Sadean legacy, Melville’s fictional dramatization of Tocqueville, and Henry James’s response to the aesthetic of his French contemporaries, including Flaubert. The result is not simply a work that provides close readings of key literary texts of the nineteenth century—Benito Cereno, The Turn of the Screw, Les Chants de Maldoror—but one that shows how in this era cruelty develops a specific narrative structure, one that is confirmed by the manner of its negation in twentieth-century philosophy. The final chapters address this shift: the postwar French reception of Sade and the relationship between American cultural theory and the rhetoric of the so-called war on terror.

The Entrapments of Form: Cruelty and Modern Literature, Catherine Toal