ISBN: 9780198184256

We are obsessed with ''barbarians''. They are the ''not us'', who don''t speak our language, or ''any language'', whom we depise, fear, invade and kill; for whom we feel compassion, or ad… Meer...

We are obsessed with ''barbarians''. They are the ''not us'', who don''t speak our language, or ''any language'', whom we depise, fear, invade and kill; for whom we feel compassion, or admiration, and an intense sexual interest; whose innocence or vigour we aspire to, and who have an extraordinaryinfluence on the comportment, and even modes of dress, of our civilised metropolitan lives; whom we often outdo in the barbarism we impute to them; and whose suspected resemblance to us haunts our introspections and imaginings. They come in two overlapping categories, ethnic others and home-grownpariahs: conquered infidels and savages, the Irish, the poor, the Jews. This book looks afresh at how we have confronted the idea of ''barbarism'', in ourselves and others, from 1492 to 1945, through the voices of many writers, chiefly Montaigne, Swift and, to a lesser extent, Shaw. | God Gulliver and Genocide by Claude Rawson Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Claude Rawson<

ISBN: 9780198184256

We are obsessed with "barbarians." They are the "not us," who don't speak our language, or "any language," whom we despise, fear, invade and kill; for whom w… Meer...

We are obsessed with "barbarians." They are the "not us," who don't speak our language, or "any language," whom we despise, fear, invade and kill; for whom we feel compassion, or admiration, and an intense sexual interest; whose innocence or vigor we aspire to, and who have an extraordinary influence on the comportment, and even modes of dress, of our civilized metropolitan lives; whom we often outdo in the barbarism we impute to them; and whose suspected resemblance to us haunts our introspections and imaginings. This book looks afresh at how we have confronted the idea of "barbarism," in ourselves and others, from the conquest of the Americas to the Nazi Holocaust, through the voices of many writers, including Montaigne, Swift and Shaw. New Textbooks>Hardcover>Classics>Lit Studies>Lit Theory & Criticism, Oxford University Press Core >2 >T<

2001, ISBN: 0198184255

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