Beauty, Violence, Representation (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138098434 ISBN 13: 9781138098435

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature, visual art, theatre, film, and music.

Charting diversifying interests in the subject of violence and beauty, dealing with the multiple inflections of these questions and representing a spectrum of voices, the volume takes its place in a growing body of recent critical work that takes violence and representation as its object. This collection offers a unique opportunity, however, to address a significant gap in the critical field, for it seeks to interrogate specifically the nexus or interface between beauty and violence. While other texts on violence make use of regimes of representation as their subject matter and consider the effects of aestheticization, beauty as a critical category is conspicuously absent. Furthermore, the book aims to "rehabilitate" beauty, implicitly conceptualized as politically or ethically regressive by postmodern anti-aesthetics cultural positions, and further facilitate its come-back into critical discourse.

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About the Author

Lisa A. Dickson is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

Maryna Romanets is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138098434
• ISBN 13: 9781138098435
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Lisa A. Dickson, Romanets Maryna