LEADER 03603nam 22006732 450 001 9910452485603321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-35812-4 010 $a1-107-23852-8 010 $a1-107-34225-2 010 $a1-107-34943-5 010 $a1-107-34600-2 010 $a1-107-34850-1 010 $a1-139-56829-9 010 $a1-107-34475-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000001095283 035 $a(EBL)1139748 035 $a(OCoLC)846494692 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000887840 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11459814 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000887840 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10847378 035 $a(PQKB)11756412 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139568296 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1139748 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1139748 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10718597 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL502030 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001095283 100 $a20120815d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aModernism and the Aesthetics of Violence /$fPaul Sheehan$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 232 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-03683-6 311 $a1-299-70779-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: modernism's blasted history -- Part I. Decadence Rising: The Violence of Aestheticism: 1. Revolution of the senses -- 2. Victorian sexual aesthetics -- 3. Culture, corruption, criminality -- 4. A malady of dreaming: The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Part II. Modernism's Breach: The Violence of Aesthetics: 5. Prologue: transgression displaced -- 6. No dreaming pale flowers -- 7. Modernist sexual politics -- 8. Maximum energy (like a hurricane) -- 9. Forbidden planet: Heart of Darkness -- Epilogue: traumas of the world -- Notes -- Bibliography. 330 $aThe notion that violence can give rise to art - and that art can serve as an agent of violence - is a dominant feature of modernist literature. In this study Paul Sheehan traces the modernist fascination with violence to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when certain French and English writers sought to celebrate dissident sexualities and stylized criminality. Sheehan presents a panoramic view of how the aesthetics of transgression gradually mutates into an infatuation with destruction and upheaval, identifying the First World War as the event through which the modernist aesthetic of violence crystallizes. By engaging with exemplary modernists such as Joyce, Conrad, Eliot and Pound, as well as lesser-known writers including Gautier, Sacher-Masoch, Wyndham Lewis and others, Sheehan shows how artworks, so often associated with creative well-being and communicative self-expression, can be reoriented toward violent and bellicose ends. 517 3 $aModernism & the Aesthetics of Violence 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zGreat Britain 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zFrance 606 $aViolence in literature 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aViolence in literature. 676 $a823/.9109112 700 $aSheehan$b Paul$f1960-$01032548 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452485603321 996 $aModernism and the Aesthetics of Violence$92474535 997 $aUNINA