1st Edition
The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals) Literature and the History of Violence
274 Pages
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Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence – that of representation. The contributors identify representations of self and other that empower a particular class, gender, nation, or race, constructing a history of the west as the history of changing modes of subjugation. The essays bring together a wide range of literary and... Read more
Introduction, Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse; Part One Early Modern Culture: Putting the Politics Back into Poetics; Chapter 1 The scene of tyranny, Stephanie Jed; Chapter 2 “Drunk with the Cup of Liberty”, Peter Stallybrass; Chapter 3 Violence done to women on the Renaissance stage, Leonard Tennenhouse; Chapter 4 The other Quixote, George Mariscal; Part Two Modern Culture: The Triumph of Depth; Chapter 5 Idleness in South Africa, J. M. Coetzee; Chapter 6 Punishing violence, sentencing crime, Randall McGowen; Chapter 7 Hysteria and the end of carnival, Allon White; Chapter 8 Violence and the liberal imagination, Vassilis Lambropoulos; Part Three Contemporary Culture: The Art of Politics; Chapter 9 “Bringing it all back home”, John Carlos Rowe; Chapter 10 Figures of violence, Lucia Folena; Chapter 11 The violence of rhetoric, Teresa de Lauretis;
Biography
Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse,
