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020 _a9780823269341 (hardback)
020 _a9780823269358 (paper)
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100 1 _aToal, Catherine,
_eauthor.
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245 1 4 _aThe entrapments of form :
_bcruelty and modern literature /
_cCatherine Toal.
250 _aFirst edition.
300 _a172 pages ;
_c23 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 139-168) and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The "Strange and Familiar Word" -- Chapter 1: The Forms of the Perverse -- Chapter 2: "Some Things Which Could Never Have Happened" -- Chapter 3: Murder and "Point of View" -- Chapter 4: The Marquis de Sade in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 5: American Cruelty.
520 _a"This book describes the narrative form of cruelty in modern literature. It focuses on the two main literary traditions that carry the legacy of revolutionary upheaval in modernity, the French and the American, and shows the transfers of influence that create the contemporary outline of the concept"--
650 0 _aFrench literature
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
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650 0 _aAmerican literature
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
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650 0 _aCruelty in literature.
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650 0 _aModernism (Literature)
_zFrance.
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650 0 _aModernism (Literature)
_zUnited States.
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650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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955 _bxk16 2015-09-02
_ixk16 2015-09-02 ONIX to Dewey
_axn08 2016-04-05 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.
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