Terrible Beauty: The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature
(Part of the Cultural Frames, Framing Culture Series)
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If art is our bid to make sense of the senseless, there is hardly more fertile creative ground than that of the twentieth century. From the trench poetry of World War I and Holocaust memoirs by Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel to the post-colonial novels of southern Asia and the anti-apartheid plays of the South African Market Theater, writers have married beauty and horror. This "century of trauma" produced writing at once saturated in political violence...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813942373
ISBN13:9780813942377
Release Date:March 2019
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:324 Pages
Weight:1.06 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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