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Raids On Human Consciousness : Writing, title: Anarchism, and Violence Cultural Frames, Framing Culture author: Redding, Arthur F. publisher: University of South Carolina Press isbn10 | asin: 1570032769 print isbn13: 9781570032769 ebook isbn13: 9780585336282 language: English American fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc, Violence in literature, Literature and society--United States-- subject History--20th century, Anarchism--United States--History--20th century, Violence-- United States--History--20th century, Cons publication date: 1998 lcc: PS374.V53R44 1998eb ddc: 810.9/355 American fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc, Violence in literature, Literature and society--United States-- subject: History--20th century, Anarchism--United States--History--20th century, Violence-- United States--History--20th century, Cons Page i Raids on Human Consciousness Page ii Cultural Frames, Framing Culture Robert Newman, Series Editor Speaking in Hunger: Gender, Discourse, and Consumption in Clarissa Donnalee Frega Raids on Human Consciousness: Writing, Anarchism, and Violence Arthur F. Redding Page iii Raids on Human Consciousness Writing, Anarchism, and Violence Arthur F. Redding Page iv Copyright © 1998 University of South Carolina Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Redding, Arthur F., 1964 Raids on human consciousness : writing, anarchism, and violence / Arthur F. Redding. p. cm.(Cultural frames, framing culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57003-230-0.ISBN 1-57003-276-9 (pbk.) 1. American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismTheory, etc. 2. Violence in literature. 3. Literature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th century. 4. AnarchismUnited States History20th century. 5. ViolenceUnited StatesHistory20th century. 6. Consciousness in literature. 7. Anarchism in literature. I. Title. II. Series. PS374.V53R44 1998 810.9'355dc21 97-45434 CIP Manufactured in the United States of America 02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1 Portions of chapters 2, 3, and 4 have been published as "The Dream Life of Political Violence: Georges Sorel, Emma Goldman, and the Modern Imagination" in Modernism/modernity 2, no. 2 (April 1995): 116, and appear here courtesy of the Johns Hopkins University Press. Chapter 6 is adapted from "Bruises, Roses: Masochism and the Writing of Kathy Acker," which appeared in Contemporary Literature 35, no. 2 (Summer 1994): 281304, and is used here by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press. Quotations from Empire of the Senseless, by Kathy Acker, are reprinted courtesy of Grove Atlantic, Inc. Quotations from Vida, by Marge Piercy, copyright © 1980 by Marge Piercy and Middlemarsh, Inc., are reprinted by permission of the Wallace Literary Agency. Page v Contents Series Editor's Preface viii Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction: Raids on Human Consciousness Forms of Violence 1 Media Violence 13 Violence, Torture, and Language 15 Prospectus 23 2 The Dream Life of Political Violence: Satire, Georges Sorel, and the Myth of Violence Epidemia and Revelation 30 Sorel and the Possibilities of Anarchism 41 Mythic and Divine Violence 63 The Irrational 68 3 The Imagination of Disaster: Anarchism and the Modern Text Chaos and Control 71 Page vi Anarchism, Labor, and the Travails of Emma Goldman 74 Dynamite Talk: Anarchism and Fiction 80 The Princess Casamassima 82 A Hazard of New Fortunes 91 The Octopus 101 The Iron Heel 108 4 Dynamite Talk: Violence and Modernism The Modernist Aesthetic 117 Conrad and Dostoevsky 120 Anarchism, the Depression, and the Cold War 142 The Fault Lines of Racial Difference: Violence and 146 Silence Violence, Rhetoric, Debate 156 5 The Fantasy Life of the Movement: The Rhetoric of Violence on the New Left and After The Fantasy Life of the Movement 160 Demon Lovers 169 All-Consuming Violence 185 The Cataclysm of Culture 191 A Pure Cold Line of Abolition 197
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