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The entrapments of form / Catherine Toal. [electronic resource]

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
  • 0823269396
  • 9780823269389
  • 0823269388
  • 9780823269372
  • 082326937X
  • 0823269361
  • 9780823269365
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PQ295.7
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Contents:
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.
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.
Item type: Online Book
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Online Book G. Allen Fleece Library Online Non-fiction PQ295.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn964530501

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.

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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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