Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature

by David Simpson

Book Overview

Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies civility and engenders tolerance, civility has also been understood as violence in disguise, and literature, which has only rarely sought to claim the power of violence, has often been accused...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150363308X
• ISBN13: 9781503633087
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"