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Violence Without God - The Rhetorical Despair of Twentieth-Century Writers (Hardcover)
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Violence Without God - The Rhetorical Despair of Twentieth-Century Writers (Hardcover)
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As twentieth-century writers confronted the political violence of
their time, they were overcome by rhetorical despair. Unspeakable
acts left writers speechless. They knew that the atrocities of the
century had to be recorded, but how? A dead body does not explain
itself, and the narrative of the suicide bomber is not the story of
the child killed in the blast. In the past, communal beliefs had
justified or condemned the most horrific acts, but the late
nineteenth-century crisis of belief made it more difficult to come
to terms with the meaning of violence. In this major new study,
Joyce Wexler argues that this situation produced an aesthetic
dilemma that writers solved by inventing new forms. Although
Symbolism, Expressionism, Modernism, Magic Realism, and
Postmodernism have been criticized for turning away from public
events, these forms allowed writers to represent violence without
imposing a specific meaning on events or claiming to explain them.
Wexler's investigation of the way we think and write about violence
takes her across national and period boundaries and into the work
of some of the greatest writers of the century, among them Joseph
Conrad, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Alfred Doeblin,
Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, and W. G.
Sebald.
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