Reading rape : the rhetoric of sexual violence in American literature and culture, 1790-1990 /
Reading Rape examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations. Through attentive readings of a wide range of literary and cultural representations of sexual assault--from antebel...
| Основен автор: | Sielke, Sabine, 1959- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
℗♭2002.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=286665 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Reading rape. |
| Резюме: |
Reading Rape examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations. Through attentive readings of a wide range of literary and cultural representations of sexual assault--from antebellum seduction narratives and "realist" representations of rape in nineteenth-century novels to Deliverance, American Psycho, and contemporary feminist accounts--Sabine Sielke traces the evolution of a specifically American rhetoric of rape. She considers the kinds of cultural work that this rhetoric. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (viii, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-232) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781400824946 140082494X 1400814685 9781400814688 |