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The Pathos of the Real: On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century
Robert Buch
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Description for The Pathos of the Real: On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century
Hardback. In dialogue with a diverse group of thinkers, from Erich Auerbach and Aby Warburg to Alain Badiou and Jacques Lacan, The Pathos of the Real advances an innovative new framework for rethinking the aesthetics of violence in the twentieth century. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
This book is about the ambition, in a set of paradigmatic writers of the twentieth century, to simultaneously enlist and break the spell of the real-their fascination with the spectacle of violence and suffering-and the difficulties involved in capturing this kind of excess by aesthetic means. The works at the center of this study-by Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Claude Simon, Peter Weiss, and Heiner Muller-zero in on scenes of agony, destruction, and death with an astonishing degree of precision and detail. The strange and troubling nature of the appeal engendered by these sights is the subject of The ... Read more
This book is about the ambition, in a set of paradigmatic writers of the twentieth century, to simultaneously enlist and break the spell of the real-their fascination with the spectacle of violence and suffering-and the difficulties involved in capturing this kind of excess by aesthetic means. The works at the center of this study-by Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Claude Simon, Peter Weiss, and Heiner Muller-zero in on scenes of agony, destruction, and death with an astonishing degree of precision and detail. The strange and troubling nature of the appeal engendered by these sights is the subject of The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Rethinking Theory
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801897566
SKU
V9780801897566
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About Robert Buch
Robert Buch received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University. He was assistant professor in Germanic studies at the University of Chicago and currently teaches in the Department of German at the University of Pittsburgh.
Reviews for The Pathos of the Real: On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century
Ambitious comparative study... Provides new insights into a range of canonical texts. Choice 2011