The entrapments of form [electronic resource] :cruelty and modern literature / Catherine Toal.
By: Toal, Catherine.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016. 2015)Edition: First edition.Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780823269389.Subject(s): LITERARY CRITICISM / General | Modernism (Literature) -- United States | Modernism (Literature) -- France | Cruelty in literature | American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 840.9/353 Online resources: Full text available: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The "Strange and Familiar Word" -- Chapter 1: The Forms of the Perverse -- Chapter 2: "Some Things Which Could Never Have Happened" -- Chapter 3: Murder and "Point of View" -- Chapter 4: The Marquis de Sade in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 5: American Cruelty.
"This book 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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