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100 1 $aWexler, Joyce Piell,$d1947-$eauthor.
245 10 $aViolence without God :$bthe rhetorical despair of twentieth-century writers /$cJoyce Wexler.
264 1 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.,$c2017.
264 4 $c©2017
300 $aix, 204 pages ;$c23 cm
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520 $a" As twentieth-century writers confronted the political violence of their time, they were overcome by rhetorical despair. Unspeakable acts left writers speechless. They knew that the atrocities of the century had to be recorded, but how? A dead body does not explain itself, and the narrative of the suicide bomber is not the story of the child killed in the blast. In the past, communal beliefs had justified or condemned the most horrific acts, but the late nineteenth-century crisis of belief made it more difficult to come to terms with the meaning of violence. In this major new study, Joyce Wexler argues that this situation produced an aesthetic dilemma that writers solved by inventing new forms. Although Symbolism, Expressionism, Modernism, Magic Realism, and Postmodernism have been criticized for turning away from public events, these forms allowed writers to represent violence without imposing a specific meaning on events or claiming to explain them. Wexler's investigation of the way we think and write about violence takes her across national and period boundaries and into the work of some of the greatest writers of the century, among them Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Alfred Döblin, Günter Grass, Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie, and W. G. Sebald. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Third year undergraduates and above studying twentieth-century literature, modernism, comparative literature, literature and culture"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Problem -- 1. Symbolism in a Secular Age -- 2. T. S. Eliot's Expressionist Angst -- 3. D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love and Men at War -- 4. Ulysses, the Mythical Method, and Magic Realism -- 5. The German Route from Ulysses to Magic Realism -- 6. How to Write about the Holocaust -- Epilogue: The End of the Secular Age -- Bibliography -- Index.
650 0 $aViolence in literature.
650 0 $aAtrocities in literature.
650 0 $aDespair in literature.
650 0 $aRhetoric and psychology.
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650 0 $aAuthors$y21st century$xPsychology.
650 0 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.$2bisacsh
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650 7 $aDespair in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00891413
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650 7 $aRhetoric and psychology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01096980
650 7 $aViolence in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01167282
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655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
776 08 $iOnline version:$aWexler, Joyce Piell, 1947- author.$tViolence without God$dNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016$z9781501325311$w(DLC) 2016039152
852 00 $bglx$hPN56.V53$iW49 2017