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Author Toal, Catherine, author.

Title The entrapments of form / Catherine Toal.

Publication Info. New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource
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Note This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This work describes the narrative form of cruelty in modern literature. It focuses on the two main literary traditions that carry the legacy of revolutionary upheaval in modernity, the French and the American, and shows the transfers of influence that create the contemporary outline of the concept.
Audience Specialized.
Contents Introduction: The "Strange and Familiar Word" -- 1. The Forms of the Perverse -- 2. "Some Things Which Could Never Have Happened" -- 3. Murder and "Point of View" -- 4. The Marquis de Sade in the Twentieth Century -- 5. American Cruelty.
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Subject French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
French literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Cruelty in literature.
Modernism (Literature) -- France.
Cruelty in literature.
France.
Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
Modernism (Literature)
United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Toal, Catherine. Entrapments of form. First edition. New York : Fordham University Press, 2016 9780823269341 0823269345 (DLC) 2015026934 (OCoLC)914326242
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