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Modernist Violence
- Journal of Modern Literature
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 39, Number 4, Summer 2016
- pp. 176-179
- 10.2979/jmodelite.39.4.12
- Review
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Sarah Cole argues that violence in modernist literature challenges aesthetic, rhetorical and formal practices to both spur innovation and invigorate convention. Presenting violence, modernists negotiated between the poles of disenchantment (materialist reduction) and enchantment (idealist plenitude). The book addresses a variety of texts from the international dynamite novels of the