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La violence est un thème littéraire et artistique particulièrement problématique : peut-on en effet la montrer ? Elle confronte à l'innommable, se présente comme la tache aveugle de l'expérience, là où il n'y a plus rien à dire. Pourquoi l'art et la littérature s'obstinent-ils dès lors, tant dans le domaine sacré que profane, à sa représentation ? Et comment ? Ce livre éclaire ces questions en montrant que la création littéraire ou artistique s'inscrit par nature au cœur d'une violence, celle de l'incapacité à dire ou à montrer, tandis qu'une autre puissance fait que l'on dépasse ce mutisme. La représentation de la violence est bien une douleur ajoutée ; elle donne accès à un " autre lieu ", qui n'est pas la vie mais l'imaginaire. Posée dans le cadre d'un travail de création, la violence appelle nécessairement une interprétation qui va au-delà de ce qui est montré d'un point de vue littéral ; plus que tout autre objet, elle souligne dès lors le geste artistique. Or celui-ci s'avère susceptible de partager l'émotion, de signifier la révolte et d'esquisser un sens possible à l'horreur. Cet ouvrage propose un jeu de regards croisés sur ce phénomène des spécialistes de diverses disciplines des sciences humaines (histoire, théologie, étude des arts, des lettres et des médias, psychanalyse, politologie...) explorent les manifestations, monstrations, définitions, conjurations de la violence. L'effort transdisciplinaire s'est effectué ici grâce à deux notions : la représentation et la ritualisation, qui s'avèrent, en définitive, solidaires.

Violence in literature

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Violence in literature --- African literature (French)

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''Challenges readers to acknowledge the extent to which violence figured in medieval texts and, with this recognition, to reconsider what the works teach us not only about the treatments and troping of victims in the medieval world but also how these patterns are a part of the social history of domestic violence.

Family violence in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Medieval. --- Family violence in literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- History and criticism

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''Challenges readers to acknowledge the extent to which violence figured in medieval texts and, with this recognition, to reconsider what the works teach us not only about the treatments and troping of victims in the medieval world but also how these patterns are a part of the social history of domestic violence.

Family violence in literature --- Geweld binnen het gezin in de literatuur --- Violence familiale dans la littérature --- Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism --- Literature [Medieval ]

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In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley argues that although scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic violence surrounding marriages and families. He examines works of historiography,as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others, to argue that these works highlight white Americans' anxiety about what happens to American 'character' when domestic enemies such as Indians and Mormon polygamists, against whom the nation had defined itself in the nineteenth century, no longer threaten its homes. Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships.

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