Sexual Violence and Literary Art

Auteur

Author of many books of poetry, translation, fiction and literary criticism, Peter Robinson is a professor of American literature at the University of Reading and poetry editor for Two Rivers Press.

Texte du rabat

Sexual Violence and Literary Art addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented, and its creative transformations, by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women's philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them.

Contenu

Introduction: Experience and Point of View; 2. 'And Still She Cried': Two Allusions to Ovid; 3. Talking Yourself to Death: The Rape of Lucrece; 4. Innocence, Sincerity, and Bodies in The Rape of the Lock; 5. Private Violence and Public Meaning: Clarissa; 6. 'Touched Very Delicately': Shelley's The Cenci; 7. 'A Blank to Me': Thomas Hardy and the Loss of Meaning; 8. 'Readings Will Grow Erratic' in Philip Larkin's 'Deceptions'; 9. The Rape of Dolly Haze; or, Rorty on Nabokov; 10. 'And Still the World Pursues': Conclusions; Bibliography.