Representing Violence in Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis: ‘Extremely Lout and Incredibly Gross’

The purpose of this paper is to probe into the representation of violence in Martin Amis’s novel, so as to uncover the mechanisms whereby Amis’s excessive, oralised and transgressive language conveys the violent experience in its forceful impact, which is brought to the reader through symbolic means...

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Main Author: Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2017-03-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4965

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