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Engaging Violence - Civility and the Reach of Literature (Paperback)
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Engaging Violence - Civility and the Reach of Literature (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm
for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our
lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works
against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies
civility and engenders tolerance, civility has also been understood
as violence in disguise, and literature, which has only rarely
sought to claim the power of violence, has often been accused of
inciting it. This book sets out to describe the ways in which these
words—violence, literature and civility—and the concepts they
evoke are mutually entangled, and the uses to which these
entanglements have been put. Simpson's argument follows a broadly
historical trajectory through the long modern period from the
Renaissance to the present, drawing on the work of historians,
political scientists, literary scholars and philosophers. The
result is a distinctly new argument about the complex and often
mystified entanglements between literature, civility and violence
in the anglophone Atlantic sphere. What now are our expectations of
civility and literature, separately and together? How do these
long-familiar but residually imprecise concepts stand up to the
demands of the modern world? Simpson's argument is that, despite
and perhaps because of their imperfect conceptualization, both
persist as important protocols for the critique of violence.
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