Engaging violence : civility and the reach of literature /

"While it is a truth widely (though not universally) acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies civility and engenders tolerance, civility has been understood as violence in disguise, and literature, which has only rarely sought to claim the...

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Main Author:	Simpson, David, 1951- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Series:	Cultural memory in the present.
Subjects:	Literature and morals. Literature and society. Violence in literature. Courtesy in literature. Littérature et morale. Littérature et société. Violence dans la littérature.