Sweet Violence
Book description
Terry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century.
A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most controversial, cultural theorists.
Provides an analytical account of the…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Sweet Violence as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book engages with questions of violence, suffering, and cultural value both in terms of literature and critical debate.
Eagleton asks us to consider how society may invest in and elsewhere venerate certain kinds of experience (e.g., inflicting pain, victimisation, witnessing destruction), which initially we may expect to be demonised.
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