Terror and the arts: artistic, literary, and political interpretations of violence from Dostoyevksy to Abu Ghraib

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-tel...

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Contributors: Hyvärinen, Matti (Editor) ; Muszynski, Lisa (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY [u.a.] Palgrave Macmillan 2008
In:Year: 2008
Edition:1. ed.
Online Access: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
UB: 49 A 12099
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Summary: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
Physical Description:XIII, 252 S Ill.
ISBN:0230606717
9780230606715