G. Matthews & S. Goodman 
Violence and the Limits of Representation [PDF ebook] 

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Violence and the Limits of Representation explores the representation of violence in literature, film, drama, music and art in order to demonstrate the ways in which the work done by researchers in the Arts and Humanities can offer fresh perspectives on current social and political issues.

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Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Violence and the Limits of Representation; Sam Goodman and Graham Matthews 1. The Violence of Representation and the Representation of Violence; Benjamin Noys 2. Violence and Love (in which Yoko Ono encourages Slavoj Žižek to give peace a chance); Scott Wilson 3. (Im)material Violence: Discipline and the Gaze in James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late ; Graham Matthews 4. Sadeian Women: Erotic Violence in the Surrealist Spectacle; Catriona Mc Ara 5. Demarcating Violence in the Dramaturgy of Lisa Mc Gee’s Girls and Dolls ; Rosalind Haslett 6. Skeletons of Solid Objects: Imperial Violence in J.G. Farrell’s Empire Trilogy ; Sam Goodman 7. Contingent Violence: Bergson and the Comedy of Horrors in Schindler’s List ; John Mullarkey 8. Violence and Mediation: The Ethics of Spectatorship in the Twenty-First Century Horror Film; Xavier Aldana Reyes 9. Objects of Surprise: Violence, Security and Metaphysics; Robert Jackson Index

About the author

Sam Goodman, University of Exeter, UK Rosalind Haslett, Newcastle University, UK Robert Jackson, postgraduate researcher, artist and software developer, UK Graham Matthews, Newcastle University, UK Catriona Mc Ara, University of Huddersfield, UK John Mullarkey, Kingston University, London, UK Benjamin Noys, University of Chichester, UK Xavier Aldana Reyes, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Scott Wilson, Kingston University, London, UK

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 194 ● ISBN 9781137296900 ● File size 2.0 MB ● Editor G. Matthews & S. Goodman ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2696821 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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