Violence without God : the rhetorical despair of twentieth-century writers /

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 su...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wexler, Joyce Piell, 1947- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Subjects:	Violence in literature. Atrocities in literature. Despair in literature. Rhetoric and psychology. Authors > 20th century > Psychology. Authors > 21st century > Psychology. Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism. Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Problem
1. Symbolism in a Secular Age
2. T. S. Eliot's Expressionist Angst
3. D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love and Men at War
4. Ulysses, the Mythical Method, and Magic Realism
5. The German Route from Ulysses to Magic Realism
6. How to Write about the Holocaust
Epilogue: The End of the Secular Age
Bibliography
Index.