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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