{"product_id":"intimate-violence-reading-rape-and-torture-in-twentieth-century-fiction-0253356482","title":"Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0253356482\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tanner, Laura E.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tanner deals with the central question of all narrative texts: how the reader is manipulated into empathy or distance by the text. . . . This study . . . is the sort that needs to be redone in every classroom and by every mature reader. . . . Tanner offers provocative and useful discussions of rape and torture . . . \" -Choice\"This thoughtful and disturbing book raises serious questions about 'the consequences . . . of reading representations of rape and torture.' \" -American Literature\"In this incisive exploration of twentieth-century novels, art, and ads, Laura Tanner explains the mechanisms by which reader and viewer are implicated in violence. Equally effective as a challenge to textual assault is the grace and gentleness of Tanner's own prose. Intimate Violence signals the emergence of an astute and humane critical voice.\" -Wendy SteinerThrough an examination of such notorious works as The White Hotel and American Psycho, Laura Tanner leads us in a disturbing exploration of the reader's complicity with fictional depictions of intimate violence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51703406231840,"sku":"NEW0253356482","price":33.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/51tRJeh_RuL_de3a2afb-7495-494a-95bf-5ff9c543952a.jpg?v=1779390815","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/intimate-violence-reading-rape-and-torture-in-twentieth-century-fiction-0253356482","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}