Violence and the Limits of Representation

Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Violence and the Limits of Representation; Sam Goodman and Graham Matthews 1. The Violence of Representation and the Representation of Violence; Benjamin Noys 2. Violence and Love (in which Yoko Ono encourages Slavoj Žižek to give peace a chance); Scott Wilson 3. (Im)material Violence: Discipline and the Gaze in James Kelman's How Late It Was, How Late ; Graham Matthews 4. Sadeian Women: Erotic Violence in the Surrealist Spectacle; Catriona McAra 5. Demarcating Violence in the Dramaturgy of Lisa McGee's Girls and Dolls ; Rosalind Haslett 6. Skeletons of Solid Objects: Imperial Violence in J.G. Farrell's Empire Trilogy ; Sam Goodman 7. Contingent Violence: Bergson and the Comedy of Horrors in Schindler's List ; John Mullarkey 8. Violence and Mediation: The Ethics of Spectatorship in the Twenty-First Century Horror Film; Xavier Aldana Reyes 9. Objects of Surprise: Violence, Security and Metaphysics; Robert Jackson Index