The article argues that attempts to denounce this or that prettification of violence in a newspaper or journal may be noble, but are misled. All representation of violence tends towards aestheticization.

Pretty Violence, 2015-12-21.

Pretty Violence

PARKS, TIMOTHY HAROLD
2015-12-21

Abstract

The article argues that attempts to denounce this or that prettification of violence in a newspaper or journal may be noble, but are misled. All representation of violence tends towards aestheticization.
Inglese
21-dic-2015
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/12/21/pretty-violence-david-shields-war-is-beautiful/
NY books
United States
internazionale
esperti non anonimi
Online
Settore L-LIN/11 - Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Americane
The article considers the aestheticization of violence in literature and art, suggesting that far from denouncing violence, literature subtly glamorizes it.
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