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The “century of trauma” produced writing at once saturated in political violence and complicated by the ethics of aesthetic representation. Stretching across genres and the globe, Terrible Beauty charts a course of aesthetic reconciliation between empathy and evil in the great literature of the twentieth century.

Terrible Beauty The Violent Aesthetic and

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      Publisher: University of Virginia Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/03/2019
      ISBN13: 9780813942377, 978-0813942377
      ISBN10: 0813942373

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      Book Synopsis
      The “century of trauma” produced writing at once saturated in political violence and complicated by the ethics of aesthetic representation. Stretching across genres and the globe, Terrible Beauty charts a course of aesthetic reconciliation between empathy and evil in the great literature of the twentieth century.

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