Atrocity: A Literary History - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503640559ISBN-10:1503640558UPC:9781503640559Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, Movements, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Critical Theory, PoliticsSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCP4PB92QN
Atrocity: A Literary History
Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity.
Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, what we think of now as atrocities have not always invited indignation or been seen to violate moral norms. Venturing from the Bible to Zadie Smith, Robbins explores the literature of suffering, to show how,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503640559ISBN-10:1503640558UPC:9781503640559Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, Movements, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Critical Theory, PoliticsSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCP4PB92QN
Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He has authored several books, among them Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction (Stanford, 2022).
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