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1 online resource (312 pages) |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents |
| Summary |
"Violent scenes in American fiction are not only brutal, bleak, and gratuitous," writes Michael Kowalewski. "They are also, by turns, comic, witty, poignant, and sometimes, strangely enough, even terrifyingly beautiful." In this fascinating tour of American fiction, Kowalewski examines incidents ranging from scalpings and torture in The Deerslayer to fish feeding off human viscera in To Have and Have Not, to show how highly charged descriptive passages bear on major issues concerning a writer's craft. Instead of focusing on violence as a socio-cultural phenomenon, he explores how writers inclu |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism
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Violence in literature.
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Literary style
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Literary form.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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Literary form
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Literary style
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Violence in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400821174 |
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1400821177 |
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