Beauty, Violence, Representation

238 Pages·2013·1.261 MB·English

by  Lisa A. Dickson, Maryna Romanets

Beauty, Violence, Representation
This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and repre-
sentation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature,
visual art, theater, fi lm, and music.
Charting diverse interests in the subject of violence and beauty, dealing
with the multiple infl ections of these questions, and representing a spectrum
of voices, the volume takes its place in a growing body of recent critical
work that takes violence and representation as its object. This collection
offers a unique opportunity, however, to address a signifi cant gap in the
critical fi eld, for it seeks to interrogate specifi cally the nexus or interface
between beauty and violence. Whereas other texts on violence make use of
regimes of representation as their subject matter and consider the effects of
aestheticization, beauty as a critical category is conspicuously absent. Fur-
thermore, the book aims to “rehabilitate” beauty, implicitly conceptualized
as politically or ethically regressive by postmodern anti-aesthetics cultural
positions, and further facilitates its comeback into critical discourse.
Lisa Dickson is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the
University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Maryna Romanets is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the
University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
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20 Mobile Technologies 27 Violence, Visual Culture, and the
From Telecommunications to Media Black Male Body
Edited by Gerard Goggin and Cassandra Jackson
Larissa Hjorth
28 Cognitive Poetics and Cultural
21 Dynamics and Performativity of Memory
Imagination Russian Literary Mnemonics
T he Image between the Visible and Mikhail Gronas
the Invisible
Edited by Bernd Huppauf and 29 Landscapes of Holocaust
Christoph Wulf Postmemory
Brett Ashley Kaplan
22 Cities, Citizens, and Technologies
30 Emotion, Genre, and Justice in
Urban Life and Postmodernity
Film and Television
Paula Geyh
E. Deidre Pribram
23 Trauma and Media
31 Audiobooks, Literature, and
Theories, Histories, and Images
Sound Studies
Allen Meek
Matthew Rubery
24 Letters, Postcards, Email
32 The Adaptation Industry
Technologies of Presence
The Cultural Economy of Literary
Esther Milne
Adaptation
Simone Murray
25 International Journalism and
Democracy 33 Branding Post-Communist
Civic Engagement Models from Nations
Around the World Marketizing National Identities in
Edited by Angela Romano the “New” Europe
Edited by Nadia Kaneva
26 Aesthetic Practices and Politics
in Media, Music, and Art 34 Science Fiction Film, Television,
Performing Migration and Adaptation
Edited by Rocío G. Davis, Across the Screens
Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, and Edited by J. P. Telotte and Gerald
Johanna C. Kardux Duchovnay
35 Art Platforms and Cultural 44 Generation X Goes Global
Production on the Internet Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion
Olga Goriunova Christine Henseler
36 Queer Representation, Visibility, 45 Forensic Science in Contemporary
and Race in American Film and American Popular Culture
Television Gender, Crime, and Science
Melanie E.S. Kohnen Lindsay Steenberg
46 Moral Panics, Social Fears, and
37 Artificial Culture
the Media
Identity, Technology, and Bodies
Historical Perspectives
Tama Leaver
Edited by Siân Nicholas and Tom
O’Malley
38 Global Perspectives on Tarzan
From King of the Jungle to 47 De-convergence in Global Media
International Icon Industries
Edited by Annette Wannamaker Dal Yong Jin
and Michelle Ann Abate
48 Performing Memory in Art and
39 Studying Mobile Media Popular Culture
Cultural Technologies, Mobile Edited by Liedeke Plate and
Communication, and the iPhone Anneke Smelik
Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Jean
Burgess, and Ingrid Richardson 49 Reading Beyond the Book
The Social Practices of
Contemporary Literary Culture
40 Sport Beyond Television
Danielle Fuller and DeNel
The Internet, Digital Media and the
Rehberg Sedo
Rise of Networked Media Sport
Brett Hutchins and David Rowe
50 A Social History of Contemporary
Democratic Media
41 Cultural Technologies
Jesse Drew
The Shaping of Culture in Media
and Society
51 Digital Media Sport
Edited by Göran Bolin
Technology, Power and Culture in
the Network Society
42 Violence and the Pornographic Edited by Brett Hutchins and
Imaginary David Rowe
The Politics of Sex, Gender,
and Aggression in Hardcore 52 Barthes’ Mythologies Today
Pornography Readings of Contemporary Culture
Natalie Purcell Edited by Pete Bennett and Julian
McDougall
43 Ambiguities of Activism
Alter-Globalism and the 53 Beauty, Violence, Representation
Imperatives of Speed Edited by Lisa Dickson and
Ingrid M. Hoofd Maryna Romanets
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Beauty, Violence,
Representation
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Lisa Dickson and Maryna Romanets
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Workers’ rights and labor compliance in global supply chains : is a social
label the answer? / edited by Jennifer Bair, Marsha Dickson, and
Doug Miller.
pages cm — (Routledge studies in business ethics ; 7)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Sweatshops. 2. Clothing trade—Moral and ethical aspects.
3. Union labels—Social aspects. 4. Social responsibility of
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: Beauty, Representation, Violence 1
LISA DICKSON AND MARYNA ROMANETS
PART I
Histories
1 “Þus for Thy Goode I Schedde My Bloode”: Violence and
Beauty in the Late Medieval English Biblical Cycles 29
LEANNE GROENEVELD
2 Staging Beauty; or, A History of Violence: Rending the
Aesthetic in Jeffrey Hatcher’s C ompleat Female Stage Beauty 42
DENEEN SENASI
3 Beauty, Violence, and the East: Paradigms of Femininity in
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century British Women’s
Oriental Narratives 55
MARIANNA D’EZIO
4 “Hearts as Innocent as Hers”: The Drowned Woman
in Victorian Literature and Art 67
LYNN ALEXANDER
PART II
Aesthetics
5 Violence and Beauty: Jacques Lacan’s Antigone 87
ANDREW SLADE
viii Contents
6 “All Beauty Must Die”: The Aesthetics of Murder,
from Thomas De Quincey to Nick Cave 100
DAVID MCINNIS
7 Environmentality and Air Travel Disasters: Representing the
Violence of Plane Crashes 120
CHRISTOPHER SCHABERG
PART III
Resistance
8 Deconstructing Neoliberalism: Sledgehammering the
End of History 139
ROBERT BENNETT
9 A Queer Craving: M uscle and the Dynamics of Beauty,
Homoerotic Desire, and Sadomasochism in Japanese
Gay Pink Cinema 154
MARK DESTEPHANO
10 Subversion of the Violent Gaze: S ins Invalid and the Aesthetics
of Disabled Bodies 169
TARA WOOD
11 Coming Home from Iraq: Women Warriors and Feminine
Vistas of Violence 183
ELIZABETH BONJEAN
List of Contributors 199
Bibliography 203
Index 219
Illustrations
4.1 R. Doyle, “Margaret and Her Child.” Engraving and etching
in Charles Dickens’s “The Chimes,” 1844. Scanned image
and text by Philip V. Allingham. V ictorian Web. 70
4.2 Hablôt K. Browne (Phiz), T he River. August 1850. Steel etching.
Illustration for chapter 47, “Martha,” in Charles Dickens’s
David Copperfield. Source: Centenary Edition (1911),
volume 2. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.
Victorian Web. 73
4.3 George Cruikshank, “The Maniac Father and the Convict
Brother Are Gone—The Poor Girl, Homeless, Friendless,
Deserted, Destitute, and Gin Mad, Commits Self Murder.”
Glyphograph, plate 8, T he Drunkard’s Children, 1848. Used
with permission of Wellcome Images. 74
4.4 George Frederick Watts, Found Drowned, c. 1848–50. Used
with permission of the Watts Gallery. 78
4.5 John William Waterhouse, Ophelia, n.d. Used courtesy of Julian
Hartnoll and The Bridgeman Art Library. 81
7.1 Segment of a safety briefing card from an Alaska Airlines
MD80, c. 2003. 122