Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction - Couverture rigide

Tanner, Laura E.

 
9780253356482: Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0253356482 ISBN 13 : 9780253356482
Editeur : Indiana University Press, 1994

Synopsis

"Tanner deals with the central question of all narrative texts: how the reader is manipulated into empathy or distance by the text. . . . This study . . . is the sort that needs to be redone in every classroom and by every mature reader. . . . Tanner offers provocative and useful discussions of rape and torture . . . " --Choice

"This thoughtful and disturbing book raises serious questions about 'the consequences . . . of reading representations of rape and torture.' " --American Literature

"In this incisive exploration of twentieth-century novels, art, and ads, Laura Tanner explains the mechanisms by which reader and viewer are implicated in violence. Equally effective as a challenge to textual assault is the grace and gentleness of Tanner's own prose. Intimate Violence signals the emergence of an astute and humane critical voice." --Wendy Steiner

Through an examination of such notorious works as The White Hotel and American Psycho, Laura Tanner leads us in a disturbing exploration of the reader's complicity with fictional depictions of intimate violence.

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À propos de l?auteur

LAURA E. TANNER is Assistant Professor of English at Boston College.

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Éditeur
Indiana University Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0253356482
ISBN 13 
9780253356482
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
172
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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