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020			_a 9781503633087
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100			_aSimpson, David
245			_aEngaging violence : civility and the reach of literature
260			_bStanford University Press, _c2022 _aStanford :
300			_axii, 280 p. ; _bill., _c23 cm
365			_b28.00 _c$ _d90.60
490			_aCultural memory in the present
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aWhile it is a truth widely (though not universally) acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies civility and engenders tolerance, civility has been understood as violence in disguise, and literature, which has only rarely sought to claim the power of violence, has often been accused of inciting it. This book sets out to describe the ways in which these English words--violence, literature, and civility--and the concepts they evoke are mutually entangled, and the uses to which these entanglements have been put. What now are our expectations of civility and literature, separately and together? How do these long-familiar but residually imprecise concepts stand up to the demands of the modern world? Simpson's argument is that both persist as important protocols for the critique of violence.
650			_aCourtesy in literature
650			_aLiterary criticism
650			_aLiterature and morals
650			_aLiterature and society
650			_aViolence in literature
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