The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture

The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)

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The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture

The Aesthetics of Murder: A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)

Written by Joel Black
4.85 80,246 ratings
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What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the "beautiful" suicides of Hedda Gabler and Yukio Mishima? Or the shootings of John Lennon and Ronald Reagan? In The Aesthetics of Murder, Joel Black explores the sometimes gruesome interplay between life and art, between actual violence and images of violence in a variety of literary texts, paintings, and films.Rather than exclude murder from critical consideration by dismissing it as a crime, Black urges us to ponder the killer's artistic role -- and our own experience as audience, witness, or voyeur. Black examines murder as a recurring, obsessive theme in the Romantic tradition, approaching the subject from an aesthetic rather than a moral, psychological, or philosophical perspective. And he brings into his discussion contemporary instances of sensational murders and assassinations, treating these as mimetic or cathartic activities in their own right.Combining historical documentation with theoretical insights, Black shows that the possibilities of representing violence -- and of experiencing it -- as art were recognized early in the nineteenth century as logical extensions of Romantic theories of the sublime. Since then, both traditional art forms and the modern mass media have contributed to the growing aestheticization of violence.

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Joel Black is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Joel Black can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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