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- Title
Modernist Violence.
- Abstract
Sarah Cole argues that violence in modernist literature challenges aesthetic, rhetorical and formal practices to both spur innovation and invigorate convention. Presenting violence, modernists negotiated between the poles of disenchantment (materialist reduction) and enchantment (idealist plenitude). The book addresses a variety of texts from the international dynamite novels of the fin de siècleto independence literature in Ireland and war writing in Britain. At the VioletHour supplements trauma theory, arguing that violence elicits creativity, presenting itself as an origin story, a raison d'ětrefor writing. Cole argues that violence and literary form 'intersect and produce one another,' suggesting that violence elicits a literary kind of communication and that this literary expression itself produces another kind of violence. Not since Richard Slotkin's monumental Regeneration through Violencehas a literary critic so effectively expanded our understanding of literary violence.
- Subjects
AT the Violet Hour: Modernism &; Violence in England &; Ireland (Book); COLE, Sarah; VIOLENCE in literature; 20TH century English literature; NONFICTION; ENGLISH literature; LITERARY criticism; MODERNISM (Literary period)
- Publication
Journal of Modern Literature, 2016, Vol 39, Issue 4, p176
- ISSN
0022-281X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/jmodelite.39.4.12