Peter Robinson

Sexual Violence and Literary Art (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785278877
• Artikelnr.: 63388453

Autorenporträt

Author of many books of poetry, translation, fiction and literary criticism, Peter Robinson is a professor of American literature at the University of Reading and poetry editor for Two Rivers Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Experience and Point of View
2. 'And Still She Cried': Two Allusions to Ovid
3. Talking Yourself to Death: The Rape of Lucrece
4. Innocence, Sincerity, and Bodies in The Rape of the Lock
5. Private Violence and Public Meaning: Clarissa
6. 'Touched Very Delicately': Shelley's The Cenci
7. 'A Blank to Me': Thomas Hardy and the Loss of Meaning
8. 'Readings Will Grow Erratic' in Philip Larkin's 'Deceptions'
9. The Rape of Dolly Haze
or, Rorty on Nabokov
10. 'And Still the World Pursues': Conclusions
Bibliography.