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<p>Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies civility and engenders tolerance, civility has also been understood as violence in disguise, and literature, which has only rarely sought to claim the power of violence, has often been accused of inciting it. This book sets out to describe

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Author

David Simpson

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781503632745

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Philosophy

Updated

2026-03-25