The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood : Western Europe, 1970-2005 / by F. Naqvi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naqvi, Fatima.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Psychology.

Linguistics.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

United States--History.

United States.

Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.

Cultural Studies.

Literary Theory.

US History.

Local Subjects:

Anthropology.

Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.

Linguistics.

Cultural Studies.

Literary Theory.

US History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2007.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a series of paradigmatic readings of René Girard, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Haneke, Anselm Kiefer, Michel Houellebecq, Elfriede Jelinek, Giorgio Agamben, Naqvi examines the current fascination with victimhood and the desire for victim status.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; A Prefatory Note on Translations; Acknowledgments; Introduction Sacrificial Victims: Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer; 1 Politics of Indifference: René Girard and Peter Sloterdijk; 2 Mediated Invisibility: Michael Haneke; 3 Apocalyptic Cosmologies: Christoph Ransmayr and Anselm Kiefer; 4 Mourning is Moot: A Brief Reprise of Freud; 5 Feminization and Impoverishment: Friederike Mayröcker; 6 The Domain of Sexual Struggle: Michel Houellebecq; 7 Cognitive Dissonances: Elfriede Jelinek; Notes; Works Cited; Index of Names

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611363390

9781281363398

1281363391

9780230603479

0230603475

OCLC:

519338868