The Prestige of Violence

Released on by Sally Bachner
preview-18

  • The Prestige of Violence Book Detail

  • Author : Sally Bachner
  • Release Date : 2011
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 184
  • ISBN 13 : 0820338893
  • File Size : 40,40 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Prestige of Violence by Sally Bachner PDF Summary

Book Description: In The Prestige of Violence Sally Bachner argues that, starting in the 1960s, American fiction laid claim to the status of serious literature by placing violence at the heart of its mission and then insisting that this violence could not be represented. Bachner demonstrates how many of the most influential novels of this period are united by the dramatic opposition they draw between a debased and untrustworthy conventional language, on the one hand, and a violence that appears to be prelinguistic and unquestionable, on the other. Genocide, terrorism, war, torture, slavery, rape, and murder are major themes, yet the writers insist that such events are unspeakable. Bachner takes issue with the claim made within trauma studies that history is the site of violent trauma inaccessible to ordinary representation. Instead, she argues, both trauma studies and the fiction to which it responds institutionalize an inability to address violence. Examining such works as Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night, Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, Bachner locates the postwar prestige of violence in the disjunction between the privileged security of wealthier Americans and the violence perpetrated by the United States abroad. The literary investment in unspeakable and often immaterial violence emerges in Bachner's readings as a complex and ideologically varied literary solution to the political geography of violence in our time.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Prestige of Violence books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Prestige of Violence

The Prestige of Violence

File Size : 13,13 MB
Total View : 3345 Views
DOWNLOAD

In The Prestige of Violence Sally Bachner argues that, starting in the 1960s, American fiction laid claim to the status of serious literature by placing violenc

Pale Fire

Pale Fire

File Size : 99,99 MB
Total View : 4102 Views
DOWNLOAD

The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade

The Prestige

The Prestige

File Size : 94,94 MB
Total View : 845 Views
DOWNLOAD

In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in a darkened salon during the course of a fraudulent séance, and from this moment they try to expose and outwit each

The Poetics of Insecurity

The Poetics of Insecurity

File Size : 49,49 MB
Total View : 853 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Poetics of Insecurity turns the emerging field of literary security studies upside down. Rather than tying the prevalence of security to a culture of fear,

Potentials of disorder

Potentials of disorder

File Size : 57,57 MB
Total View : 8970 Views
DOWNLOAD

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book deals with the institutional framework in pos