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Author:   James Giles
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Edition:   First Edition, 1 ed.
Weight:   0.353kg
ISBN:  

9780817359928

ISBN 10:   0817359923
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Violence and Space 2. Discovering Fourthspace in Appalachia: Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God 3. Russell Banks’s Affliction: “All Those Solitary Dumb Angry Men” 4. Of Vultures, Eyeballs, and Parrots: Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle 5. The Myth of the Boatright Men: Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina 6. Playing for Death: Don DeLillo’s End Zone 7. Drifting through Urantia: Greyhound Space in Denis Johnson’s Angels 8. The Return of John Smith: Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer 9. “The Battle of Bob Hope” and “The Great Elephant Zap”: Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers 10. “I Hope You Didn’t Go into Raw Space without Me”: Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho 11. Violence and Family Structures Notes Works Cited Index

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I enjoyed reading The Spaces of Violence and learned a lot from it. . . . One of the most important contributions it makes to the wider discussion of violence and American literature is its insistence that violence is not a characteristic of urban life only, but permeates all regions-urban, suburban, and rural. -Robert Rebein, author of Hicks, Tribes, & Dirty Realists: American Fiction after Postmodernism Giles explores in literary terms our national desire 'to immerse ourselves in gore. -American Book Review The Spaces of Violence is a welcome contribution to scholarship on American preoccupation with cyclical carnage. -Rocky Mountain Review

I enjoyed reading The Spaces of Violence and learned a lot from it. . . . One of the most important contributions it makes to the wider discussion of violence and American literature is its insistence that violence is not a characteristic of urban life only, but permeates all regions—urban, suburban, and rural.""—Robert Rebein, author of Hicks, Tribes, & Dirty Realists: American Fiction after Postmodernism ""Giles explores in literary terms our national desire ‘to immerse ourselves in gore.""—American Book Review The Spaces of Violence is a welcome contribution to scholarship on American preoccupation with cyclical carnage.""—Rocky Mountain Review

Author Information

James R. Giles is Presidential Teaching Professor of English at Northern Illinois University and author of eight books, including Violence in the Contemporary American Novel: An End to Innocence and Confronting the Horror: The Novels of Nelson Algren.

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