Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the Death Penalty (Flashpoints, 33) - Softcover

Morisi, Ve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810141515 ISBN 13: 9780810141513

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 2020

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<div><i>Capital Letters</i> sheds new light on how literature has dealt with society&#8217;s most violent legal institution, the death penalty. It investigates this question through the works of three major French authors with markedly distinct political convictions and literary styles: Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, and Albert Camus. Working at the intersection of poetics, ethics, and law, &#200;ve Morisi uncovers an unexpected transhistorical dialogue on both the modern death penalty and the ends and means of literature after the French Revolution. Through close textual analysis, careful contextualization, and the critique of violence forged by Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault, and Ren&#233; Girard, Morisi reveals that, despite their differences, Hugo, Baudelaire, and Camus converged in questioning France&#8217;s humanitarian redefinition of capital punishment dating from the late eighteenth century. Conversely, capital justice led all three writers to interrogate the functions, tools, and limits of their art. <i>Capital Letters</i> shows that the key modern debate on the political and moral responsibility, or autonomy, of literature crystallizes around the death penalty in works whose form disturbs the commonly accepted divide between aestheticism and engagement.</div>

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<div><b>&#200;VE MORISI</b> is an associate professor of French and Francophone literature at the University of Oxford.<br> &#160;</div>

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• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0810141515
• ISBN 13: 9780810141513
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 265
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