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Terrible Beauty

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Author : Marian Eide
Category : Literary Criticism
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Published : 2019-03-13
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Page : 324
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Description: If art is our bid to make sense of the senseless, there is hardly more fertile creative ground than that of the twentieth century. From the trench poetry of World War I and Holocaust memoirs by Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel to the post-colonial novels of southern Asia and the anti-apartheid plays of the South African Market Theater, writers have married beauty and horror. This "century of trauma" produced writing at once saturated in political violence and complicated by the ethics of aesthetic representation. Stretching across genres and the globe, Terrible Beauty charts a course of aesthetic reconciliation between empathy and evil in the great literature of the twentieth century. The "violent aesthetic"—a category the author traces back to Plato and Nietzsche—accommodates the pleasure people take not only in destruction itself but also in its rendering. As readers, we oscillate between a fascination with atrocity and an ethical imperative to bear witness. Arguing for the immersive experience of literature as particularly conducive to ethical contemplation, Marian Eide plumbs the aesthetic power and ethical purpose of this creative tension. By invoking the reader as complicit—both stricken witness and enthralled voyeur— Terrible Beauty sheds new light on the relationship between violence, literature, and the moral burdens of art.


Terrible Beauty A Cultural History Of The Twentieth Century

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Author : Peter Watson
Category : Philosophy
Publisher : Hachette UK
Published : 2013-10-17
Type : PDF & EPUB
Page : 848
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Description: A history of the twentieth century which covers all the ideas, people, great events, literary and artistic movements, scientific discoveries which have shaped the twentieth century. Terrible Beauty presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative. Beginning with four seminal ideas which were introduced in 1900 - the unconscious, the gene, the quantum and Picasso's first paintings in Paris - the book brings together the main areas of thought and juxtaposes the most original and influential ideas of our time in an immensely readable narrative. From the creation of plastic to Norman Mailer, from the discovery of the 'Big Bang' to the Counterculture, from Relativity to Susan Sontag, from Proust to Salman Rushdie, and Henri Bergson to Saul Bellow, the book's range is encyclopedic. We meet in these pages the other twentieth century, the writers, the artists, the scientists and philosophers who were not cowed by the political and military disasters raging around them, and produced some of the most amazing and rewarding ideas by which we live. Terrible Beauty, endlessly stimulating and provocative, affirms that there was much more to the twentieth century than war and genocide.


A Terrible Beauty

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Author : D. W. St John
Category : Fiction
Publisher : ELDERBERRY PRESS, INC.
Published : 2000-07
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Page : 216
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A Terrible Beauty

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Category : Poetry
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Published : 2015-04-06
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Page : 160
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Description: ‘A terrible beauty is born’ WB Yeats’s poignant words have come to immortalise the complex legacy of the Easter Rising, 1916. The poetry that emerged at this time of upheaval in Ireland gave voice to the thoughts of a generation. Yeats’s poem, ‘Easter 1916’, sits alongside selected works of other major poets of the era. These include Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Joseph Plunkett, who were executed for their part in the Rising. In the aftermath of the Rising an outpouring of poetry also expressed the shock and grief of literary figures such as Padraic Colum, Francis Ledwidge, Eva Gore-Booth, James Stephens, Dora Sigerson Shorter and Seán O’Casey. Rebels, soldiers, honorary Irishmen, sympathisers and exiles all held up a mirror, in verse, to the events, beliefs and desires bound up in 1916.


A Terrible Beauty Is Born

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Author : Brendan Curran
Category : Medical
Publisher : CRC Press
Published : 2020-03-05
Type : PDF & EPUB
Page : 180
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Description: Genetics and its related technologies are revolutionizing the world. The media is regularly dominated by controversy over the latest genetically modified (GM) food, human gene therapy or cancer chip technology. Maverick scientists are in the process of cloning humans, and the human genome sequence is available on the Internet. Fifty years ago we di


A Terrible Beauty Fallen Eagles Mc Book 1

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Author : T. Birmingham
Category :
Publisher : Lulu.com
Published : 2019-01-15
Type : PDF & EPUB
Page : 132
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Description: Ten years ago, Kit Markham left her high school sweetheart, Lee Devereaux, behind to serve her country. The woman who returns is just a shadow of her former self. She might be the kickass second of the Fallen Eagles MC, but she's also damaged?and it's an unbearable struggle at times just to make it through the day. The only things that help are her veteran MC, the Fallen Eagles, her family, and long, quiet rides on the back of Lee's bike. Lee has his own share of war wounds but none worse than the burden he's taken on to see that the Kit he once knew finds herself again. It's been over two years since she returned home, and he's had it with being kept in the dark. He's demanding answers?but he's not the only one who's interested in Kit's past. When local veterans and their families start getting threats from a team of blackmailers, Kit's shocking history is revealed. A twist that has Lee reeling and wondering if what they once had is even salvageable.


A Terrible Beauty

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Author : Peter Watson
Category : Biography
Publisher :
Published : 2000
Type : PDF & EPUB
Page : 847
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Description: All changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born Easter 1916, W B Yeats Terrible Beauty presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative. Beginning with four seminal ideas which were introduced in 1900 - the unconscious, the gene, the quantum and Picasso's first paintings in Paris - the book brings together the main areas of thought and juxtaposes the most original and influential ideas of our time in an immensely readable narrative. From the creation of plastic to Norman Mailer, from the discovery of the 'Big Bang' to the Counterculture, from Relativity to Susan Sontag, from Proust to Salman Rushdie, and Henri Bergson to Saul Bellow, the book's range is encyclopedic. We meet in these pages the other twentieth century, the writers, the artists, the scientists and philosophers who were not cowed by the political and military disasters raging around them, and produced some of the most amazing and rewarding ideas by which we live. Terrible Beauty, endlessly stimulating and provocative, affirms that there was much more to the twentieth century than war and genocide.


A Terrible Beauty

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Author : Robertson, Heather
Category : Art
Publisher : Formac
Published : 1977
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Page : 248
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Description: The paintings reproduced are from the war art collection held by the Canadian War Museum.


A Terrible Beauty

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Author : Paul Gough
Category : Art, British
Publisher : Sansom (Acc)
Published : 2010
Type : PDF & EPUB
Page : 340
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Description: In-depth survey of artists of the Great War, including Paul Nash, Muirhead Bone, Nevinson, Orpen, Stanley Spencer and Wyndham Lewis.


Ireland A Terrible Beauty

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Author : Jill Uris
Category : Fantasy in art
Publisher :
Published : 1978
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Page : 292
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