{"product_id":"an-aesthetics-of-injury-9780810136793","title":"An Aesthetics of Injury","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines wounding as a foundational principle of modernism in literature and film. Theorizing the genre of the narrative wound - texts that aim not only to depict but also to inflict injury - Ian Fleishman reveals harm as an essential aesthetic strategy in ten exemplary authors and filmmakers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn 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 \u003ci\u003eDie Immunität der Literatur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"\u003ci\u003eAesthetics of Injury\u003c\/i\u003e is insightful, beautifully written, and compelling. It will help shift many discussions in literary, film and feminist studies.\"\" - Kathleen Komar, author of \u003ci\u003eReclaiming Klytemnestra: Revenge or Reconciliation\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038267048279,"sku":"9780810136793","price":33.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810136793.jpg?v=1750939713","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-aesthetics-of-injury-9780810136793","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}