Terror and the arts artistic, literary, and political interpretations of violence from Dostoyevksy to Abu Ghraib / edited by Matti Hyvärinen and Lisa Muszynski.

Other author Hyvärinen, Matti.
Other author Muszynski, Lisa.
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan,
Descriptionxiii, 252 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Palgrave Connect Literature & Performing Arts Collection 2009
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Contents The implicated spectator: from Manet to Botero / Frank Möller -- Art in the age of terror: the Israeli case / Dana Arieli-Horowitz -- The aura of terror? / Kia Lindroos -- Dostoyevsky on terror and the question of the West / Margaret Heller -- To this side of good and evil: Primo Levi as a truth-teller / Tuija Parvikko -- Narrating the trauma: Georges Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance / Kuisma Korhonen -- Too much terror? J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and the circulation of trauma / Matti Hyvärinen -- Dictators and dictatorships: arts and politics in Romania and Chile (1974-89) / Caterina Preda -- Inciting mental terror as effective governmental control: Chinese propaganda posters during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) / Minna Valjakka -- The Sweet Hereafter of Machiavelli and Weber: discussing community and responsibility as political-ethical criteria / Javier Franzé -- The violence of lying / Olivia Guaraldo -- Terrorized by sound? Foucault on terror, resistance, and sonorous art / Lauri Siisiäinen
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2007047880
ISBN0230606717 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780230606715 (alk. paper)