Violence and the Limits of Representation

Chapter 1 Introduction: Violence and the Limits of Representation

Chapter 2 The Violence of Representation and the Representation of Violence

Chapter 3 Violence and Love (in Which Yoko Ono Encourages Slavoj Žižek to ‘Give Peace a Chance’)

Chapter 4 (Im)material Violence: Discipline and the Gaze in James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late

Chapter 5 Sadeian Women: Erotic Violence in the Surrealist Spectacle

Chapter 6 Demarcating Violence in the Dramaturgy of Lisa McGee’s Girls and Dolls

Chapter 7 ‘Skeletons of Solid Objects’: Imperial Violence in J.G. Farrell’s Empire Trilogy

Chapter 9 Violence and Mediation: The Ethics of Spectatorship in the Twenty-First Century Horror Film

Chapter 10 Objects of Surprise: Violence, Security, and Metaphysics