Description: An Aesthetics of Injury: The Narrative Wound from Baudelaire to Tarantino explores the wound as a cornerstone of twentieth-century storytelling--from the invention of literary modernity by Charles Baudelaire to the current postmodernist concerns of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek and the acclaimed but highly controversial filmmakers Michael Haneke and Quentin Tarantino.
Review Quotes: "An incisive and provocative contribution to the history and theory of modern narrative since Baudelaire... Fleishman shows that the idea of an open wound as an allegoric dimension, or an 'aesthetics of injury, ' plays a vital and thus far neglected role in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature."
--Johannes Türk, author of Die Immunität der Literatur