Terrible Beauty: The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature

by Marian Eide

Book Overview

If art is our bid to make sense of the senseless, there is hardly more fertile creative ground than that of the twentieth century. From the trench poetry of World War I and Holocaust memoirs by Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel to the post-colonial novels of southern Asia and the anti-apartheid plays of the South African Market Theater, writers have married beauty and horror. This "century of trauma" produced writing at once saturated in political violence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813942373
• ISBN13: 9780813942377
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"