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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524874203321

Autore

Buch Robert

Titolo

The Pathos of the Real : On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century / / Robert Buch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-8018-9927-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 217 p. )

Collana

Rethinking theory

Disciplina

190.9/04

Soggetti

Reality - History - 20th century

Pathos - History - 20th century

Violence - History - 20th century

Cruelty - History - 20th century

Aesthetics, Modern - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-212) and index.

Nota di contenuto

In praise of cruelty: Bataille, Kafka, and ling'-chi -- Fragmentary description of a disaster: Claude Simon -- The resistance to pathos and the pathos of resistance: Peter Weiss -- Medeamachine: the "fallout" of violence in Heiner Müller -- Epilogue.