Suicide Century investigates suicide as a prominent theme in twentieth-century and contemporary literature. Andrew Bennett argues that with the waning of religious and legal prohibitions on suicide in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the increasing influence of medical and sociological ac...

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1. Verfasser:	Bennett, Andrew, 1960 December 2- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Schlagworte:	1900-1999 Suicide in literature. English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Suicide dans la littérature. Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. American literature English literature Suicide in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Zusammenfassung:	Suicide Century investigates suicide as a prominent theme in twentieth-century and contemporary literature. Andrew Bennett argues that with the waning of religious and legal prohibitions on suicide in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the increasing influence of medical and sociological accounts of its causes and significance in the twentieth century, literature responds to the act and idea as an increasingly normalised but incessantly baffling phenomenon. Discussing works by a number of major authors from the long twentieth century, the book explores the way that suicide makes and unmakes subjects, assumes and disrupts meaning, induces and resists empathy, and insists on and makes inconceivable our understanding of ourselves and of others.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781108284134 1108284132 9781108307697 1108307698 9781108406253 1108406254