Introduction. An aesthetic of injury: Decadence and aestheticism -- An aesthetic of injury -- The literary wound on trial: poetic decadence and Baudelaire's Flowers of evil -- "Sinnbild der Wunde": the ambivalent aestheticism of Kafka's A country doctor -- Bataille's bruise: the mutilated writing of The blue of noon (1927/1935/1957) -- The poetics of omission -- The textual orifice: holes in Genet's Funeral rites -- "Ce qui est coupe repousse": Cixous's Breaths (1975) and the poetics of omission -- The woman on the wall: Bachmann's Malina (1971) -- Jelinek's and Schroeter's Malina -- The filmic cut: Jelinek's The piano teacher (1983) -- Haneke's The piano teacher -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The final cut. Quentin Tarantino, or modernism dismembered
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral): Harvard University, 2013
