The pathos of the real
Subtitle: on the aesthetics of violence in the twentieth century
By: Robert Buch.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801897566
Subjects: Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century; Violence -- History -- 20th century; Pathos -- History -- 20th century; Reality -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: In praise of cruelty : Bataille, Kafka, and Ling-Chi; title: Fragmentary description of a disaster : Claude Simon; title: The resistance to pathos and the pathos of resistance : Peter Weiss; title: Medeamachine : the "fallout" of violence in Heiner Müller; title: Epilogue : Francis Bacon, or, The brutality of fact.