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 r...
Brief description: 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 (Cambridge UP, 2002), Dishing It Out (Reaktion, 2011), Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption (Zero, 2014) and Terrorism Before the Letter: the Mythography of Political Violence in England, Scotland and France (Oxford UP, 2015).
Review Quotes: "We are always, writes Appelbaum, "being made to know of it - the slap, the abuse, the threat." And Applebaum certainly knows of it - violence, that is. He knows of it, above all, as art knows of it - that is to say, from the inside of it. The very 'rhythm of violence, ' as Appelbaum calls it, can here be felt." --John Schad, Professor of Modern Literature, University of Lancaster, UK