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Nietzsche and the Law of the 'The Other': The Jew in Refraction
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ERNEST BECOMING HEMINGWAY
In: The Yale review, Volume 100, Issue 3, p. 167-180
ISSN: 1467-9736
SYLVIA PLATH'S MYSTERIOUS LOVER
In: The Yale review, Volume 98, Issue 4, p. 88-102
ISSN: 1467-9736
FIGHTING ON
In: The Yale review, Volume 97, Issue 4, p. 153-162
ISSN: 1467-9736
MARK OF THE BEAST
In: The Yale review, Volume 97, Issue 2, p. 142-157
ISSN: 1467-9736
Visions of Reality
In: The Yale review, Volume 92, Issue 2, p. 118-128
ISSN: 1467-9736
MILLER'S TRAGIC MUSE
In: The Yale review, Volume 96, Issue 2, p. 1-26
ISSN: 1467-9736
The Literature of Pain
In: Human rights review: HRR, Volume 8, Issue 4, p. 409-417
ISSN: 1874-6306
The Literature of Pain
In: Human rights review: HRR, Volume 8, Issue 4, p. 409-417
ISSN: 1524-8879
In light of the recent Abu Ghraib prison scandal, this paper examines various works of literature to reveal that people who have prisoners in their power tend to torment their victims. Richard Henry Dana and Herman Melville's seafaring novels reveal how the captain and his mates assume brutal, godlike powers over the common sailors, T. E. Lawrence describes how the victim's pain can become a masochistic pleasure, Franz Kafka imagines a state of universal guilt, where the victim, an average man, suffers in the grip of an elaborate torture machine, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Jacobo Timerman, both political prisoners who survived to describe their terror, and George Orwell, meditating on contemporary totalitarian regimes as he suffered the agonies of medical treatment, transform their pain into art. Such literary works provide insights into the morally ambiguous depths of punishment. Every scene of torture, based on the authors' experience, observation and imagination, has the same context as those vividly captured in the Abu Ghraib snapshots. Adapted from the source document.
DOMESTICK PRIVACIES
In: The Yale review, Volume 95, Issue 1, p. 144-158
ISSN: 1467-9736
Splinters of Mortality
In: The Yale review, Volume 93, Issue 4, p. 146-157
ISSN: 1467-9736
Fiction in Review: J. F. Powers
In: The Yale review, Volume 91, Issue 4, p. 133-160
ISSN: 1467-9736
Intriguer, monster and idealist
In: Human rights review: HRR, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 86-89
ISSN: 1874-6306