LEADER 03945nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910779903303321 005 20230421041419.0 010 $a1-282-75187-5 010 $a9786612751875 010 $a1-4008-2117-7 010 $a1-4008-1241-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821174 035 $a(CKB)111056486506782 035 $a(EBL)581620 035 $a(OCoLC)700688644 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000135391 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11954094 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135391 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10058884 035 $a(PQKB)11247457 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581620 035 $a(OCoLC)51551030 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35954 035 $a(DE-B1597)446060 035 $a(OCoLC)979592491 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821174 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581620 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10002101 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275187 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486506782 100 $a19921028d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDeadly musings$b[electronic resource] $eviolence and verbal form in American fiction /$fMichael Kowalewski 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1993 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-06973-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-290) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tINTRODUCTION: Reading Violence, Making Sense --$tCHAPTER I. Invisible Ink --$tCHAPTER II. James Fenimore Cooper --$tCHAPTER III. Poe's Violence --$tCHAPTER IV. Violence and Style in Stephen Crane's Fiction --$tCHAPTER V. The Purity of Execution in Hemingway's Fiction --$tCHAPTER VI. Faulkner --$tCHAPTER VII. Flannery O'Connor --$tCHAPTER VIII. "The Late, Late, Late Show" --$tPOSTSCRIPT: Style, Violence, American Fiction --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $a"Violent scenes in American fiction are not only brutal, bleak, and gratuitous," writes Michael Kowalewski. "They are also, by turns, comic, witty, poignant, and sometimes, strangely enough, even terrifyingly beautiful." In this fascinating tour of American fiction, Kowalewski examines incidents ranging from scalpings and torture in The Deerslayer to fish feeding off human viscera in To Have and Have Not, to show how highly charged descriptive passages bear on major issues concerning a writer's craft. Instead of focusing on violence as a socio-cultural phenomenon, he explores how writers including Cooper, Poe, Crane, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Pynchon draw on violence in the realistic imagining of their works and how their respective styles sustain or counteract this imagining. Kowalewski begins by offering a new definition of realism, or realistic imagining, and the rhetorical imagination that seems to oppose it. Then for each author he investigates how scenes of violence exemplify the stylistic imperatives more generally at work in that writer's fiction. Using violence as the critical occasion for exploring the distinctive qualities of authorial voice, Deadly Musings addresses the question of what literary criticism is and ought to be, and how it might apply more usefully to the dynamics of verbal performance. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aViolence in literature 606 $aStyle, Literary 606 $aLiterary form 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aViolence in literature. 615 0$aStyle, Literary. 615 0$aLiterary form. 676 $a813.009/355 700 $aKowalewski$b Michael$0567673 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779903303321 996 $aDeadly musings$93756535 997 $aUNINA