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- catalog abstract ""What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the "beautiful" suicides of Hedda Gabler and Yukio Mishima? Or the shootings of John Lennon and Ronald Reagan? In The Aesthetics of Murder, Joel Black explores the sometimes gruesome interplay between life and art, between actual violence and images of violence in a variety of literary texts, paintings, and films. Rather than exclude murder from critical consideration by dismissing it as a crime, Black urges us to ponder the killer's artistic role -- and our own experience as audience, witness, or voyeur. Black examines murder as a recurring, obsessive theme in the Romantic tradition, approaching the subject from an aesthetic rather than a moral, psychological, or philosophical perspective. And he brings into his discussion contemporary instances of sensational murders and assassinations, treating these as mimetic or cathartic activities in their own right. Combining historical documentation with theoretical insights, Black shows that the possibilities of representing violence -- and of experiencing it -- as art were recognized early in the nineteenth century as logical extensions of Romantic theories of the sublime. Since then, both traditional art forms and the modern mass media have contributed to the growing aestheticization of daily experience -- including murder, suicide, and terrorism."--Book cover.".
- catalog alternative "Study in romantic literature and contemporary culture".
- catalog contributor b3270196.
- catalog created "c1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "c1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1991.".
- catalog description ""What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the "beautiful" suicides of Hedda Gabler and Yukio Mishima? Or the shootings of John Lennon and Ronald Reagan? In The Aesthetics of Murder, Joel Black explores the sometimes gruesome interplay between life and art, between actual violence and images of violence in a variety of literary texts, paintings, and films. Rather than exclude murder from critical consideration by dismissing it as a crime, Black urges us to ponder the killer's artistic role -- and our own experience as audience, witness, or voyeur. Black examines murder as a recurring, obsessive theme in the Romantic tradition, approaching the subject from an aesthetic rather than a moral, psychological, or philosophical perspective. And he brings into his discussion contemporary instances of sensational murders and assassinations, treating these as mimetic or cathartic activities in their own right. Combining historical documentation with theoretical insights, Black shows that the possibilities of representing violence -- and of experiencing it -- as art were recognized early in the nineteenth century as logical extensions of Romantic theories of the sublime. Since then, both traditional art forms and the modern mass media have contributed to the growing aestheticization of daily experience -- including murder, suicide, and terrorism."--Book cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-266) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction --- Part I. ONE: Murder as (Fine) Art -- TWO: Murder as (Pure) Action -- THREE: Murder as (Carnal) Knowledge --- Part II. FOUR: Mimesis and Murder -- FIVE: Catharsis and Murder -- AFTERWORD: Writing after Murder.".
- catalog extent "x, 276 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Aesthetics of murder.".
- catalog identifier "0801841801 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "080184181X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Aesthetics of murder.".
- catalog isPartOf "Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Parallax : re-visions of culture and society".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "c1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Aesthetics of murder.".
- catalog subject "809/.93355 20".
- catalog subject "Detective and mystery stories History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society.".
- catalog subject "Murder in literature.".
- catalog subject "Murder in mass media.".
- catalog subject "Murder literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN56.M85 B57 1991".
- catalog subject "Romanticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction --- Part I. ONE: Murder as (Fine) Art -- TWO: Murder as (Pure) Action -- THREE: Murder as (Carnal) Knowledge --- Part II. FOUR: Mimesis and Murder -- FIVE: Catharsis and Murder -- AFTERWORD: Writing after Murder.".
- catalog title "Study in romantic literature and contemporary culture".
- catalog title "The aesthetics of murder : a study in romantic literature and contemporary culture / Joel Black.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".