Do killers, artists, and terrorists need one another? In "Crimes of Art and Terror," Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe explore the disturbing adjacency of literary creativity to violence and even political terror. Lentricchia and McAuliffe begin by anchoring their penetrating discussions in the events of 9/11 and the scandal provoked by composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's refer...
Do killers, artists, and terrorists need one another? In "Crimes of Art and Terror," Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe explore the disturbing adjacency of literary creativity to violence and even political terror. Lentricchia and McAuliffe begin by anchoring their penetrating discussions in the events of 9/11 and the scandal provoked by composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's reference to the destruction of the World Trade Center as a great work of art, and they go on to show how political extremism and avant-garde artistic movements have fed upon each other for at least two centuries.
"Crimes of Art and Terror" reveals how the desire beneath many romantic literary visions is that of a terrifying awakening that would undo the West's economic and cultural order. This is also the desire, of course, of what is called terrorism. As the authority of writers and artists recedes, it is criminals and terrorists, Lentricchia and McAuliffe suggest, who inherit this romantic, destructive tradition. Moving freely between the realms of high and popular culture, and fictional and actual criminals, the authors describe a web of impulses that catches an unnerving spirit.
Lentricchia and McAuliffe's unorthodox approach pairs Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" with Martin Scorsese's "King of Comedy" and connects the real-life Unabomber to the surrealist Joseph Cornell and to the hero of Bret Easton Ellis's bestselling novel "American Psycho." They evoke a desperate culture of art through thematic dialogues among authors and filmmakers as varied as Don DeLillo, Joseph Conrad, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean Genet, Frederick Douglass, Hermann Melville, and J. M. Synge, among others. And they conclude provocatively with an imagined conversation between Heinrich von Kleist and Mohamed Atta. The result is a brilliant and unflinching reckoning with the perilous proximity of the impulse to create transgressive art and the impulse to commit violence.
作者简介
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Frank Lentricchia is the Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature and Theater Studies in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University. He is the author or editor of ten critical works, most recently Modernist Quartet, several novels, and a memoir.
Jody McAuliffe is an associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Theater Studies and the Department...
Frank Lentricchia is the Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature and Theater Studies in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University. He is the author or editor of ten critical works, most recently Modernist Quartet, several novels, and a memoir.
Jody McAuliffe is an associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Theater Studies and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Duke University. She is a director, a fiction writer, and the editor of Plays, Movies, and Critics.
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0 有用 Manchild 2013-08-06 16:19:35
同样讨论艺术和审美的越界现象，Frank Lentricchia 关注的是极端分子与恐怖主义的浪漫化，受到了浪漫主义和现代主义传统的双重驱使，它融合现代人焦虑、对原创以及被关注的渴望。作曲家认为9／11是最伟大完美的杰作与赞扬艺术家的自杀是同一种恐怖。
0 有用 月の出 2022-04-02 22:31:23
不知何时欠下的债，终于断断续续地读完了。最喜欢的自然是论述DeLillo的部分。Mao II在国内既买不到实体书（连搜都搜不到），也找不到PDF格式的电子版；今日在豆瓣上看到梁永安老师（台湾）的译作（2011年），是台版，估计在大陆是永远也见不到了。可惜啊可惜……
0 有用 月の出 2022-04-02 22:31:23
不知何时欠下的债，终于断断续续地读完了。最喜欢的自然是论述DeLillo的部分。Mao II在国内既买不到实体书（连搜都搜不到），也找不到PDF格式的电子版；今日在豆瓣上看到梁永安老师（台湾）的译作（2011年），是台版，估计在大陆是永远也见不到了。可惜啊可惜……
0 有用 Manchild 2013-08-06 16:19:35
同样讨论艺术和审美的越界现象，Frank Lentricchia 关注的是极端分子与恐怖主义的浪漫化，受到了浪漫主义和现代主义传统的双重驱使，它融合现代人焦虑、对原创以及被关注的渴望。作曲家认为9／11是最伟大完美的杰作与赞扬艺术家的自杀是同一种恐怖。