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An aesthetics of injury : the narrative wound from Baudelaire to Tarantino / Ian Fleishman.
LIBRA PQ673 .F54 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fleishman, Ian Thomas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- French fiction.
- German fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- German fiction.
- Wounds and injuries in literature.
- Wounds and injuries in motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 305 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Introduction. An aesthetic of injury: Decadence and aestheticism
- An aesthetic of injury
- The literary wound on trial: poetic decadence and Baudelaire's Flowers of evil
- "Sinnbild der Wunde": the ambivalent aestheticism of Kafka's A country doctor
- Bataille's bruise: the mutilated writing of The blue of noon (1927/1935/1957)
- The poetics of omission
- The textual orifice: holes in Genet's Funeral rites
- "Ce qui est coupe repousse": Cixous's Breaths (1975) and the poetics of omission
- The woman on the wall: Bachmann's Malina (1971)
- Jelinek's and Schroeter's Malina
- The filmic cut: Jelinek's The piano teacher (1983)
- Haneke's The piano teacher
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: The final cut. Quentin Tarantino, or modernism dismembered.
- Notes:
- Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810136809
- 0810136805
- 9780810136793
- 0810136791
- 9780810136816
- 0810136813
- OCLC:
- 1003742395
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