LEADER 02967nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910811079003321 005 20230207225518.0 010 $a1-281-36339-1 010 $a9786611363390 010 $a0-230-60347-5 024 7 $a10.1057/9780230603479 035 $a(CKB)1000000000342477 035 $a(EBL)308253 035 $a(OCoLC)519338868 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001659228 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16438860 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001659228 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14989996 035 $a(PQKB)10102963 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000301844 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11215511 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000301844 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10265755 035 $a(PQKB)11359863 035 $a(DE-He213)978-0-230-60347-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC308253 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL308253 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10171532 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL136339 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000342477 100 $a20060830d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe literary and cultural rhetoric of victimhood $eWestern Europe, 1970-2005 /$fby Fatima Naqvi 205 $a1st ed. 2007. 210 $aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-53635-0 311 $a1-4039-7570-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; A Prefatory Note on Translations; Acknowledgments; Introduction Sacrificial Victims: Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer; 1 Politics of Indifference: Rene? 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 Mayro?cker; 6 The Domain of Sexual Struggle: Michel Houellebecq; 7 Cognitive Dissonances: Elfriede Jelinek; Notes; Works Cited; Index of Names 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aSocial perception$zEurope, Western 606 $aVictims 606 $aVictims in literature 606 $aSocial psychology$zEurope, Western 610 $aVictim society$aVictimhood 615 0$aSocial perception 615 0$aVictims. 615 0$aVictims in literature. 615 0$aSocial psychology 676 $a302/.12 700 $aNaqvi$b Fatima$01679088 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811079003321 996 $aThe literary and cultural rhetoric of victimhood$94047108 997 $aUNINA