The Aesthetics of Violence: Art, Fiction, Drama and Film

by Robert Appelbaum

Overview

Offering an ambitious study of the aesthetics of violence across art, literature, film and theatre, this volume brings together traditional German aesthetic and social theory with the modern problem of violence in art. Written in an engaging style, the book includes examples ranging from Homer and Shakespeare to slasher films and performance art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786610904
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/09/2019
Series:	Futures of the Archive
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.45(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Robert Appelbaum is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (2002), Aguecheek’s Beef, Belch’s Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture and Food Among the Early Moderns (2006), Dishing It Out: In Search of the Restaurant Experience (2011), Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption (2014) and Terrorism Before the Letter: Mythography and Political Violence in England, Scotland and France (2015).

Table of Contents

1. Playing with Violence / 2. Hansel or Gretel / 3. Winners and Losers / 4. Revelry / 5. Puzzle / Epilogue: Art Without Violence, Violence Without Art / Bibliography / Index

Editorial Reviews

We are always, writes Appelbaum, “being made to know of it - the slap, the abuse, the threat.” And Applebaum certainly knows of it – violence, that is. He knows of it, above all, as art knows of it - that is to say, from the inside of it. The very ‘rhythm of violence,’ as Appelbaum calls it, can here be felt.

John Schad