LEADER 04463nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910458609203321 005 20210604031132.0 010 $a1-281-12585-7 010 $a9786611125851 010 $a0-226-47208-6 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226472089 035 $a(CKB)1000000000400093 035 $a(EBL)408224 035 $a(OCoLC)476228051 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000132377 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11131952 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000132377 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10028851 035 $a(PQKB)10984835 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117463 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408224 035 $a(DE-B1597)524616 035 $a(OCoLC)824142085 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226472089 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408224 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210002 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL112585 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000400093 100 $a20030319d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCrimes of art + terror$b[electronic resource] /$fFrank Lentricchia + Jody McAuliffe 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (198 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-47205-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 169-175) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$t1. GROUNDZEROLAND --$t2. LITERARY TERRORISTS --$t3. SOLITARY SAVAGES --$t4. CROSSING THE LINE --$t5. ROUGH TRADE --$t6. DELIBERATE ORPHANS --$t7. THE LAST MANIACAL FOLLY OF HEINRICH VON KLEIST (A FICTION) --$tCODA --$tWORKS CITED --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINDEX 330 $aDo killers, artists, and terrorists need one another? In Crimes of Art and Terror, Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe explore the disturbing adjacency of literary creativity to violence and even political terror. Lentricchia and McAuliffe begin by anchoring their penetrating discussions in the events of 9/11 and the scandal provoked by composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's reference to the destruction of the World Trade Center as a great work of art, and they go on to show how political extremism and avant-garde artistic movements have fed upon each other for at least two centuries. Crimes of Art and Terror reveals how the desire beneath many romantic literary visions is that of a terrifying awakening that would undo the West's economic and cultural order. This is also the desire, of course, of what is called terrorism. As the authority of writers and artists recedes, it is criminals and terrorists, Lentricchia and McAuliffe suggest, who inherit this romantic, destructive tradition. Moving freely between the realms of high and popular culture, and fictional and actual criminals, the authors describe a web of impulses that catches an unnerving spirit. Lentricchia and McAuliffe's unorthodox approach pairs Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment with Martin Scorsese's King of Comedy and connects the real-life Unabomber to the surrealist Joseph Cornell and to the hero of Bret Easton Ellis's bestselling novel American Psycho. They evoke a desperate culture of art through thematic dialogues among authors and filmmakers as varied as Don DeLillo, Joseph Conrad, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean Genet, Frederick Douglass, Hermann Melville, and J. M. Synge, among others. And they conclude provocatively with an imagined conversation between Heinrich von Kleist and Mohamed Atta. The result is a brilliant and unflinching reckoning with the perilous proximity of the impulse to create transgressive art and the impulse to commit violence. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature, Experimental$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAvant-garde (Aesthetics) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature, Experimental$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAvant-garde (Aesthetics) 676 $a809/.911 700 $aLentricchia$b Frank$0220708 701 $aMcAuliffe$b Jody$f1954-$0929335 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458609203321 996 $aCrimes of art + terror$92088708 997 $aUNINA