Violence in literature - Peebles, Stacey 1976- (Salem Press, 2014)
Includes bibliographical references and index
About this volume / Stacey Peebles -- On violence / Stacey Peebles -- The foundations of violence in ancient Greek literature / Thomas Palaima -- Blood, force, influence : studying the representation of violence / Stacey Peebles -- The thing and the image : violence in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Aaron Bady -- Modern war and American literature : ironic realism, satire, and escape / Ty Hawkins -- Violence in the Bible from Genesis to Job / David Mikics -- Street violence and youth in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Philip White -- Grappling with violence in Latin American literature / Núria Sabaté Llobera -- Kill lists : Sade cinema, and the language of the torturer / Lindsay Hallam -- Intimate subject(ivitie)s : race, gender, and violence in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Aretha Phiri -- Excess, (Ir)rationality, and consumerism : violence in No country fro old men and Fight club / James R. Giles -- "Bluffers and blowhards" : speaking of violence in Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's long halftime walk / Mark Bresnan -- Contemporary war narratives : story-truth, new journalisms, and why we write / Lydia Neuman -- The war in "Big two-hearted river" / Allen Josephs