Violence and mediation in contemporary culture

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Violence and mediation in contemporary culture

edited by Ronald Bogue and Marcel Cornis-Pope

（SUNY series, the margins of literature）

State University of New York Press, c1996

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • Introduction : paradigms of conflict and mediation in literary and cultural imagination / Ronald Bogue and Marcel Cornis-Pope
  • The melancholy object of consumption / Stanley Corngold
  • On wounding : windows, screens, and desire / Jerry Herron
  • True lies : Arnold Schwarzenegger's life and times / Albert Liu
  • The Jew as woman's symptom : Kathlyn Bigelow's conflictive representation of feminine power / Elisabeth Bronfen
  • Shattered hopes : on Blue velvet / Susan Derwin
  • "Murder and mystery Mormon style" : violence as mediation in American popular culture / Terryl Givens
  • Destruction, revolution, and cultural nihilism / Tonglin Lu
  • Murder as play : Conrad Aiken's King Coffin / Mihai Spariosu
  • Contest vs. mediation : innovative discursive modes in postmodern fiction / Marcel Cornis-Pope

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内容説明

Two major issues in contemporary culture are explored in this book: the problem of violence in relation to the much-debated notions of difference, representation, and power; and the corresponding question of the role of mediation in providing communal space for a nonconflictive play of cultural differences. Focusing on topics as diverse as the semiotics of windows/TV screens, gender relations in contemporary film, the image of Mormons in popular literature, and the dynamics of representation in the fiction of Kafka, Lu Xun, Conrad Aiken, Toni Morrison, and Ronald Sukenick, this book examines the dynamics of violence and mediation from a number of perspectives—literary, philosophical, anthropological, psychological, and sociological. Contributors discuss the legitimation and regulation of violence within the social institutions of law; the systemic violence of commodity exchange within late-capitalist societies; the compensatory mechanisms of sacrificial victimage that mediate social disequilibrium; and the function of representation itself as contemporary culture's prevailing mode of mediating violence. A number of essays envision forms of mediation based on alternatives to an agonistic cultural ethos, suggesting, however, that mediation has its conceptual and pragmatic limitations, serving all too often as a way of conducting violence by other means. Contributors include Elisabeth Bronfen, Stanley Corngold, Susan Derwin, Terryl Givens, Jerry Herron, Albert Liu, Tonglin Lu, and Mihai Spariosu.

目次

1. Introduction: Paradigms of Conflict and Mediation in Literary and Cultural Imagination Ronald Bogue and Marcel Cornis-Pope 2. The Melancholy Object of Consumption Stanley Corngold 3. On Wounding: Windows, Screens, and Desire Jerry Herron 4. True Lies: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Life and Times Albert Liu 5. The Jew as Woman's Symptom: Kathlyn Bigelow's Conflictive Representation of Feminine Power Elisabeth Bronfen 6. Shattered Hopes: On Blue Velvet Susan Derwin 7. "Murder and Mystery Mormon Style": Violence as Mediation in American Popular Culture Terryl Givens 8. Destruction, Revolution, and Cultural Nihilism Tonglin Lu 9. Murder as Play: Conrad Aiken's King Coffin Mihai Spariosu 10. Contest vs. Mediation: Innovative Discursive Modes in Postmodern Fiction Marcel Cornis-Pope Contributors Index

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