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Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction

Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction

Tanner, Laura E.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0253356482
ISBN13: 9780253356482
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Nov 22 1994
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Tanner deals with the central question of all narrative texts: how the reader is manipulated into empathy or distance by the text. . . . This study . . . is the sort that needs to be redone in every classroom and by every mature reader. . . . Tanner offers provocative and useful discussions of rape and torture . . . --Choice

This thoughtful and disturbing book raises serious questions about 'the consequences . . . of reading representations of rape and torture.' --American Literature

In this incisive exploration of twentieth-century novels, art, and ads, Laura Tanner explains the mechanisms by which reader and viewer are implicated in violence. Equally effective as a challenge to textual assault is the grace and gentleness of Tanner's own prose. Intimate Violence signals the emergence of an astute and humane critical voice. --Wendy Steiner

Through an examination of such notorious works as The White Hotel and American Psycho, Laura Tanner leads us in a disturbing exploration of the reader's complicity with fictional depictions of intimate violence.

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