Violence in Literature

Author	: Stacy Peebles
Publisher	: Salem PressInc
Total Pages	: 241
Release	: 2014
ISBN-10	: 1619254093
ISBN-13	: 9781619254091
Rating	: 4/5 (091 Downloads)

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Download or read book Violence in Literature written by Stacy Peebles and published by Salem PressInc. This book was released on 2014 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our oldest stories are about conflict. This collection draws together discussions of violence in storytelling from a number of perspectives. Historical contexts range from ancient Greece to postcolonial Africa to the American West, and topics considered include the role of the witness, how place affects our understanding of conflict, the aestheticization of violence, how trauma is written on the body, and contemporary war stories.

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