The Aesthetics Of Murder
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The Aesthetics Of Murder
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Author : Joel Black
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991-09
The Aesthetics Of Murder written by Joel Black and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
"What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the "beautiful" suicides of Hedda Gabler and Yukio Mishima? Or the shootings of John Lennon and Ronald Reagan? In The Aesthetics of Murder, Joel Black explores the sometimes gruesome interplay between life and art, between actual violence and images of violence in a variety of literary texts, paintings, and films. Rather than exclude murder from critical consideration by dismissing it as a crime, Black urges us to ponder the killer's artistic role -- and our own experience as audience, witness, or voyeur. Black examines murder as a recurring, obsessive theme in the Romantic tradition, approaching the subject from an aesthetic rather than a moral, psychological, or philosophical perspective. And he brings into his discussion contemporary instances of sensational murders and assassinations, treating these as mimetic or cathartic activities in their own right. Combining historical documentation with theoretical insights, Black shows that the possibilities of representing violence -- and of experiencing it -- as art were recognized early in the nineteenth century as logical extensions of Romantic theories of the sublime. Since then, both traditional art forms and the modern mass media have contributed to the growing aestheticization of daily experience -- including murder, suicide, and terrorism." -- Book cover.
The Murder Of Art
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Author : Thomas Crombez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Murder Of Art written by Thomas Crombez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Aesthetics categories.
The murder of art. It sounds like the title of a thriller. That is exactly what the history of aesthetics is. Western philosophical tradition begins with a condemnation of art. The Greek philosopher Plato banished artists and poets from his ideal society. All they could produce were false shadow images. In contrast, from the eighteenth century onwards, art was also glorified by numerous thinkers. According to the Romantics, art was the bearer of a truth that escaped the concepts of philosophy. The murder of art, or the glorification of art. In both cases, art functioned as a challenge to philosophy. This book traces the history of aesthetics. At the same time, it provides a cross section of the history of philosophy.
Transgression And The Aesthetics Of Evil
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Author : Taran Kang
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2021-12-15
Transgression And The Aesthetics Of Evil written by Taran Kang and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-15 with Aesthetics, European categories.
Genius and the Spirit of Transgression -- Symbols of the Morally Bad -- Evil and the Sublime -- Wicked Spectators.
Murder In Our Midst
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Author : Omer Bartov
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1996-02-29
Murder In Our Midst written by Omer Bartov and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-02-29 with History categories.
War endlessly tries to mask itself. The myth of the heroic soldier testing his individual courage stands in stark contrast to the reality of mass, anonymous death and the suppression of individual actions. Murder in Our Midst shows that this fundamental tension reached its natural conclusion in the Holocaust, and that disguising it has required an ongoing effort to misrepresent war and the Holocaust as something other than industrial killing. Examining a broad range of the representations of war's horrors, from scholarly depictions to those in popular literature, poetry, art, and the movies, Omer Bartov finds they have some things in common. Societies and cultures have attempted to form coherent images of horrific events, to draw didactic lessons from them, and to exploit them to legitimate ideological or political positions. Made up of interconnected essays, this book is both a scholarly and an often personal and passionate examination of the emergence, implementation, and representation of industrial killing. Bartov draws out the links between recent revisionist attempts to minimize and deny the Holocaust, and Hollywood's ongoing fascination with National Socialism and Hitler's "Final Solution." Arguing that the modern predicament reflects the effects of the Nazi genocide on current perceptions of war, history, and memory, this book is a plea for compassion and commitment in an increasingly violent and indifferent world.
The Aesthetics Of Violence
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Author : Robert Appelbaum
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-11-30
The Aesthetics Of Violence written by Robert Appelbaum and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-30 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Modernism And The Aesthetics Of Violence
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Author : Paul Sheehan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-24
Modernism And The Aesthetics Of Violence written by Paul Sheehan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-24 with History categories.
This book addresses the subject of violence as it features in celebrated modernist works from the early twentieth century. It traces the modernist fascination with violence back to the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when certain writers in France and England sought to celebrate dissident sexualities and stylized criminality.
Child Murder And British Culture 1720 1900
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Author : Josephine McDonagh
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-12-08
Child Murder And British Culture 1720 1900 written by Josephine McDonagh and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this wide-ranging study, Josephine McDonagh examines the idea of child murder in British culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Analysing texts drawn from economics, philosophy, law, medicine as well as from literature, McDonagh highlights the manifold ways in which child murder echoes and reverberates in a variety of cultural debates and social practices. She places literary works within social, political and cultural contexts, including debates on luxury, penal reform campaigns, slavery, the treatment of the poor, and birth control. She traces a trajectory from Swift's A Modest Proposal through to the debates on the New Woman at the turn of the twentieth century by way of Burke, Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, George Egerton, and Thomas Hardy, among others. McDonagh demonstrates the haunting persistence of the notion of child murder within British culture in a volume that will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars alike.
The Aesthetics Of Care
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Author : Josephine Donovan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-06-02
The Aesthetics Of Care written by Josephine Donovan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature. The Aesthetics of Care begins with a guide to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, leading to a reconceptualization of key literary critical terms such as mimesis and catharsis, before moving on to an applied section, with interpretations of the specific treatment of animals handled by a wide range of authors, including Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, George Sand, and J.M. Coetzee. The book closes with three concluding theoretical chapters. Clear, original, and provocative, The Aesthetics of Care introduces and makes new contributions to a number of burgeoning areas of study and debate: aesthetics and ethics, critical theory, animal ethics, and ecofeminist criticism.
On Murder Considered As One Of The Fine Arts
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Author : Thomas de Quincey
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-29
On Murder Considered As One Of The Fine Arts written by Thomas de Quincey and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-29 with Fiction categories.
On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts is an essay by Thomas De Quincey. A fictional account of a report made to a gentleman's club regarding the visual appreciation of murder. For friends of satire!
The Aesthetics Of Violence In Contemporary Media
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Author : Gwyn Symonds
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-11-03
The Aesthetics Of Violence In Contemporary Media written by Gwyn Symonds and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-03 with Performing Arts categories.
The topic of violence in the media seems as inundated as can be. Countless studies and research projects have been conducted, mostly to show its negative effects on society. What Gwynneth Symonds proposes, though, takes this significant topic one step further: studying the aesthetics of media violence. By defining key terms like the 'graphic' nature and 'authenticity' of violent representations, and discussing how those definitions are linked to actual violence outside the film and television screen, Symonds broadens the arena of study. Engagingly written, The Aesthetics of Violence in Contemporary Media fills an important gap. Symonds uses existing studies for the empirical audience reception data, together with discussions of the different representations of violence to look at violence in the media as an art form in of itself. By looking at The Simpsons, Bowling for Columbine and Norma Khouri's Forbidden Love, just to name a few, Symonds cross-analyzes violence in multiple media to see their affective role in audience reception - an important aspect when discussing media. The book strikes a balance between the readers' need to see how theory matches what actually happens in the texts in question and the demands of a theoretical overview.
