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The entrapments of form /Catherine Toal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2016.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823269396
  • 9780823269389
  • 9780823269372
  • 9780823269365
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PQ295 .E587 2016
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
1. The Forms of the Perverse -- 2. "Some Things Which Could Never Have Happened" -- 3. Murder and "Point of View" -- 4. The Marquis de Sade in the Twentieth Century -- 5. American Cruelty.
Summary: This work describes the narrative form of cruelty in modern literature. It focuses on the two main literary traditions that carry the legacy of revolutionary upheaval in modernity, the French and the American, and shows the transfers of influence that create the contemporary outline of the concept.
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This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographies and index.

This work describes the narrative form of cruelty in modern literature. It focuses on the two main literary traditions that carry the legacy of revolutionary upheaval in modernity, the French and the American, and shows the transfers of influence that create the contemporary outline of the concept.

Introduction: The "Strange and Familiar Word" -- 1. The Forms of the Perverse -- 2. "Some Things Which Could Never Have Happened" -- 3. Murder and "Point of View" -- 4. The Marquis de Sade in the Twentieth Century -- 5. American Cruelty.

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