The Aesthetics of Violence: Art, Fiction, Drama and Film (Futures of the Archive)

The Aesthetics of Violence: Art, Fiction, Drama and Film (Futures of the Archive)

Robert Appelbaum
$175.20
Publication Date: November 30th, 2017
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
9781786605030
Pages:
196
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Description

Offering an ambitious study of the aesthetics of violence across art, literature, film and theatre, this volume brings together traditional German aesthetic and social theory with the modern problem of violence in art. Written in an engaging style, the book includes examples ranging from Homer and Shakespeare to slasher films and performance art.

About the Author

Robert Appelbaum is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (2002), Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture and Food Among the Early Moderns (2006), Dishing It Out: In Search of the Restaurant Experience (2011), Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption (2014) and Terrorism Before the Letter: Mythography and Political Violence in England, Scotland and France (2015).

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