Focussing on the work of Hannah Arendt, the author traces the emergence of a critical aesthetics of judgment in a group of writers - often hard to place in the 'between' of modernism and contemporary writing - including Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, Iris Murdoch and Martha Gellhorn.
Focussing on the work of Hannah Arendt, the author traces the emergence of a critical aesthetics of judgment in a group of writers - often hard to place in the 'between' of modernism and contemporary writing - including Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, Iris Murdoch and Martha Gellhorn.
Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Literature and Critical Theory at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of The Writing of Anxiety: Imagining Wartime in 1940s British Culture (Palgrave, 2007); The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism (Macmillan, 1998) and the co-editor (with Marina Mackay) of British Fiction after Modernism: The Novel at Mid-Century (Palgrave, 2006) and (with John Phillips) of Reading Melanie Klein (Routledge, 1998).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Gathering Ashes: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of Trauma Part One: Writing After Nuremberg Chapter One: 'An event that did not become an experience': Rebecca West's Nuremberg Chapter Two: The Man in the Glass Booth: Hannah Arendt's Irony Chapter Three: Fiction in Jerusalem: Muriel Spark's Idiom of Judgement Part Two: Territorial Rights Chapter Four: 'We Refugees': Hannah Arendt and the Perplexities of Human Rights Chapter Five: 'Creatures of an Impossible Time': Late Modernism, Human Rights and Elizabeth Bowen Chapter Six: The Dark Background of Difference: Love and the Refugee in Iris Murdoch Bibliography.
Introduction Gathering Ashes: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of Trauma Part One: Writing After Nuremberg Chapter One: 'An event that did not become an experience': Rebecca West's Nuremberg Chapter Two: The Man in the Glass Booth: Hannah Arendt's Irony Chapter Three: Fiction in Jerusalem: Muriel Spark's Idiom of Judgement Part Two: Territorial Rights Chapter Four: 'We Refugees': Hannah Arendt and the Perplexities of Human Rights Chapter Five: 'Creatures of an Impossible Time': Late Modernism, Human Rights and Elizabeth Bowen Chapter Six: The Dark Background of Difference: Love and the Refugee in Iris Murdoch Bibliography.
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