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Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction

Laura E. Tanner

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Description:"Tanner deals with the central question of all narrative texts: how the reader is manipulated into empathy or distance by the text. . . . This study . . . is the sort that needs to be redone in every classroom and by every mature reader. . . . Tanner offers provocative and useful discussions of rape and torture . . . " —Choice"This thoughtful and disturbing book raises serious questions about 'the consequences . . . of reading representations of rape and torture.' " —American Literature"In this incisive exploration of twentieth-century novels, art, and ads, Laura Tanner explains the mechanisms by which reader and viewer are implicated in violence. Equally effective as a challenge to textual assault is the grace and gentleness of Tanner's own prose. Intimate Violence signals the emergence of an astute and humane critical voice." —Wendy SteinerThrough an examination of such notorious works as The White Hotel and American Psycho, Laura Tanner leads us in a disturbing exploration of the reader's complicity with fictional depictions of intimate violence.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction. To get started finding Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 172

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Release: 1994

ISBN: 0253115973

Description: "Tanner deals with the central question of all narrative texts: how the reader is manipulated into empathy or distance by the text. . . . This study . . . is the sort that needs to be redone in every classroom and by every mature reader. . . . Tanner offers provocative and useful discussions of rape and torture . . . " —Choice"This thoughtful and disturbing book raises serious questions about 'the consequences . . . of reading representations of rape and torture.' " —American Literature"In this incisive exploration of twentieth-century novels, art, and ads, Laura Tanner explains the mechanisms by which reader and viewer are implicated in violence. Equally effective as a challenge to textual assault is the grace and gentleness of Tanner's own prose. Intimate Violence signals the emergence of an astute and humane critical voice." —Wendy SteinerThrough an examination of such notorious works as The White Hotel and American Psycho, Laura Tanner leads us in a disturbing exploration of the reader's complicity with fictional depictions of intimate violence.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction. To get started finding Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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