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020			_a9781139568296 (ebook)
020			_z9781107036833 (hardback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aPR888.M63 _bS53 2013
082	0	0	_a823/.9109112 _223
100	1		_aSheehan, Paul, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aModernism and the Aesthetics of Violence / _cPaul Sheehan.
246	3		_aModernism & the Aesthetics of Violence
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (238 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThe notion that violence can give rise to art - and that art can serve as an agent of violence - is a dominant feature of modernist literature. In this study Paul Sheehan traces the modernist fascination with violence to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when certain French and English writers sought to celebrate dissident sexualities and stylized criminality. Sheehan presents a panoramic view of how the aesthetics of transgression gradually mutates into an infatuation with destruction and upheaval, identifying the First World War as the event through which the modernist aesthetic of violence crystallizes. By engaging with exemplary modernists such as Joyce, Conrad, Eliot and Pound, as well as lesser-known writers including Gautier, Sacher-Masoch, Wyndham Lewis and others, Sheehan shows how artworks, so often associated with creative well-being and communicative self-expression, can be reoriented toward violent and bellicose ends.
650		0	_aViolence in literature
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107036833
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139568296
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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