Title:
The art of cruelty : a reckoning / Maggie Nelson.
Author:
Nelson, Maggie, 1973-
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2011.
Call Number:
N8217 .C792 N45 2011
Abstract:
Discusses whether the brutal imagery present in reality and entertainment will shock society into a less alienated state and help create a just social order or whether focusing on representations of cruelty makes society more cruel.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780393072150
9780393343144
Physical Description:
288 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Styles of imprisonment -- Theaters of cruelty -- Great to watch -- Catharsis, captivity -- Everything is nice -- They're only dolls -- The golden rule -- Nobody said no -- The brutality of fact -- Who we are -- A situation of meat -- Precariousness -- Inflicted -- Face -- Rings of action -- Rarer and better things.
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