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  • Evil : a history in modern French literature and thought
    Catani, Damian
    In this original interdisciplinary approach to evil in modern French literature, Damian Catani shows how literary representations of evil arecrucial to understanding our contemporary moral and ... political climate. Catani creates a balanced conceptual and ethical framework to read the work of major French writers and thinkers. His close readings of texts are informed not only by philosophical definitions of evil, but discussions ofthe historical context. Beginning with Balzac and Baudelaire in the Restoration, Catani covers 19th-century interpretations of evil in the work of Lautramont and Zola, analysing how the Catholic misogynistic stereotype of the 'evil feminine' and new scientific theories impacted their work. Moving into the twentieth century, evil is explored in terms of the Self, ennui, power, knowledge and politics through readings of Proust, Cline, Satre and Foucault. By bringing together aesthetic, philosophical, historical and ideological concerns to read some of the most important texts in modern literature, this study argues why a broader treatment of literary evils is vital to enlightening historical evils." - Založnikova predstavitev
    Vrsta gradiva - knjiga ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Izdaja - 1st pbk ed.
    Založništvo in izdelava - London : Bloomsbury, 2014
    Jezik - angleški
    ISBN - 978-1-4725-8251-5; 978-1-4411-8556-3
    COBISS.SI-ID - 25307907

Knjižnica Signatura – lokacija, inventarna št. ... Status izvoda
FF, Osrednja humanistična knjižnica, Ljubljana OHK - Primerj. knjiž. in lit. teor.
 12176 821.133.1.09 CATANI D. Evil
prosto - na dom, čas izposoje: 21 dni
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