Sexual Violence and Literary Art

Sexual Violence and Literary Art addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented, and its creative transformations, by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women's philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them.

List of contents

Introduction: Experience and Point of View; 2. 'And Still She Cried': Two Allusions to Ovid; 3. Talking Yourself to Death: The Rape of Lucrece; 4. Innocence, Sincerity, and Bodies in The Rape of the Lock; 5. Private Violence and Public Meaning: Clarissa; 6. 'Touched Very Delicately': Shelley's The Cenci; 7. 'A Blank to Me': Thomas Hardy and the Loss of Meaning; 8. 'Readings Will Grow Erratic' in Philip Larkin's 'Deceptions'; 9. The Rape of Dolly Haze; or, Rorty on Nabokov; 10. 'And Still the World Pursues': Conclusions; Bibliography.

About the author

Author of many books of poetry, translation, fiction and literary criticism, Peter Robinson is a professor of American literature at the University of Reading and poetry editor for Two Rivers Press.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Robinson
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2020, delayed
• EAN: 9781785278853
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-885-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary theory, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights