Hyvärinen / Muszynski Terror and the Arts

Artistic, Literary, and Political Interpretations of Violence from Dostoyevsky to Abu Ghraib
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-61413-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection

This book advances the argument that the arts, from film and literature to painting and comics, offer qualitatively different readings of terror and trauma that endeavor to resist the exploitation and perpetuation of violence.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hyvärinen, M.

Muszynski, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: VISUALIZING TERROR The Implicated Spectator: From Manet to Botero; F. Möller Art in the Age of Terror: The Israeli Case; D. Arieli-Horowitz The Aura of Terror?; K. Lindroos PART II: FICTIONALIZING TERROR Dostoyevsky on Terror and the Question of the West; M. Heller To this Side of Good and Evil: Primo Levi as a Truth-Teller; T. Parvikko Narrating Trauma? Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance; K. Korhonen Too much Terror? J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and the Circulation of Trauma; M. Hyvärinen PART III: GOVERMENTAL TERROR Dictators and Dictatorships: Art and Politics in Romania and Chile (1974–1989); C. Preda Inciting Mental Terror as Effective Governmental Control: Chinese Propaganda Posters During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976); M. Valjakka The Sweet Hereafter of Machiavelli and Weber: Discussing Community and Responsibility as Political-ethical Criteria; J. Franzé PART IV: THE THEORY OF TERROR The Violence of Lying; O. Guaraldo Terrorized by Sound? Foucault on Terror, Resistance, and Sonorous Art; L. Siisiäinen

Über Autor(innen)

MATTI HYVÄRINEN is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow, Department of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Tampere, Finland. 
LISA MUSZYNSKI is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Social Science History, University of Helsinki, Finland and an associate member of the  Politics and the Arts research team at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change.