02985nam 2200733Ia 450 991045122570332120200520144314.01-281-36339-197866113633900-230-60347-510.1057/9780230603479(CKB)1000000000342477(EBL)308253(OCoLC)519338868(SSID)ssj0001659228(PQKBManifestationID)16438860(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001659228(PQKBWorkID)14989996(PQKB)10102963(SSID)ssj0000301844(PQKBManifestationID)11215511(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000301844(PQKBWorkID)10265755(PQKB)11359863(DE-He213)978-0-230-60347-9(MiAaPQ)EBC308253(Au-PeEL)EBL308253(CaPaEBR)ebr10171532(CaONFJC)MIL136339(EXLCZ)99100000000034247720060830d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe literary and cultural rhetoric of victimhood[electronic resource] Western Europe, 1970-2005 /by Fatima Naqvi1st ed. 2007.New York Palgrave Macmillan20071 online resource (273 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53635-0 1-4039-7570-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 NamesIn 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.Social perceptionEurope, WesternVictimsVictims in literatureSocial psychologyEurope, WesternElectronic books.Social perceptionVictims.Victims in literature.Social psychology302/.12Naqvi Fatima1000522MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451225703321The literary and cultural rhetoric of victimhood2296525UNINA