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

by Laura E. Tanner

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253356482
• ISBN13: 9780253356482
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher