Table of Contents: Intimate violence :

Main Author:	Tanner, Laura E., 1961-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1994.
Subjects:	American fiction > History and criticism. > 20th century English fiction > History and criticism. > 20th century Victims of crimes in literature. Human body in literature. Reader-response criticism. Violence in literature. Torture in literature. Women in literature. Rape in literature. Roman américain > Histoire et critique. > 20e siècle Roman anglais > Histoire et critique. > 20e siècle Victimes d'actes criminels dans la littérature. Corps humain dans la littérature. Esthétique de la réception. Violence dans la littérature. Torture dans la littérature. Femmes dans la littérature. Viol dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. American fiction. English fiction. Verkrachting. Martelen. Letterkunde.
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Table of Contents:

Reading rape : Sanctuary and The women of Brewster Place
Reading torture : 1984 and Amnesty International
Sweet pain and charred bodies : figuring violence in The white hotel
Envisioning violence : seeing/selling the body in Last exit to Brooklyn
American psycho and the American psyche : reading the forbidden text
"Known in the brain and known in the flesh" : gender, race, and the vulnerable body in Tracks.