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Author Falke, Cassandra

Title Interpreting Violence Narrative, Ethics and Hermeneutics
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (209 p.)
Series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Ser
Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsement -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Interpreting Violence, Violent Interpretations: Introduction -- Note -- Works Cited -- Part I Representing Violence, Violent Representations -- 1 Witnessing Violence in Literature and Humanitarian Discourse -- Strange, Human Violence -- The Humanitarian Dilemma -- Worlds of Literature -- Note -- Works Cited -- 2 Violence, Encore!: Popular Music, Power and Postwar Memory -- Just Memory -- Memory Labor, Memory Work, Memory Action
Popular Music, Violence and Censorship in Didier Daeninckx's "Corvée De Bois" -- Facing the Muzak -- Interpreting Violence -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3 Rethinking Planetarity in the Specter of (Neo)colonial Violence: The Strangler Vine and "Thugs" in America -- Works Cited -- 4 Variants and Consequences of Violence in Iris Murdoch's The Sacred and Profane Love Machine -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 5 Violent Appetites: Distaste and the Aesthetics of Violence -- Achilles' Tummy -- Amusing Murders and Other Deathly Delights -- Don't Trust Your Disgust -- Notes -- Works Cited
Part II Understanding the Violence of Perpetrators -- 6 A Manifesto On the Hermeneutics of Violence -- Lone Wolves -- Methods -- 2083 -- The Last Rhodesian -- The Great Replacement -- An Open Letter -- The El Paso Shooter Manifesto -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 7 Narrative Mastery Over Violence in Perpetrator-Authored Documents: Interpreting Closure in The Stroop Report -- Introduction: Interpreting Documents of Violence -- Reading The Stroop Report -- Determining Genre in The Stroop Report -- Reading Narrative and Ideological Closure in The Stroop Report
Interpreting Performances of Closure in The Stroop Report -- Conclusion: Reading Perpetrator-Authored Documents Through the Lens of Literary Methodologies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 8 Space of Murder, Space of Freedom: The Forest as a Posttraumatic Landscape in Holocaust Narratives -- The Forest in the Perpetrator's Murdering Hand -- The Forest On the March -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part III Articulating Inherent Violence -- 9 Physical, Emotional and Discursive Violence: The Problem of Narrative in Karl Ove Knausgård's My Struggle -- Varieties of Violence
The Possibility of Dialogical, Nonviolent Understanding -- Violence as Constitutive of Subjectivity -- Discursive Violence: Cultural Narrative Models and the "Force of We" -- An Ethics of Honesty -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 10 Reading Violence, Violent Reading: Levinas and Hermeneutics -- "The Damage Caused By Fire" -- Levinas and Hermeneutics -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 11 Style and the Violence of Passivity in Samuel Beckett's How It Is -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 12 Vulnerability, Violence and Nonviolence -- Introductory Remarks -- The Reemergence of Vulnerability
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Vulnerability and Violence in Subject Formation
Form Electronic book
Author Fareld, Victoria
Meretoja, Hanna
ISBN 9781000840292
1000840298