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Forgetting Lot's Wife

On Destructive Spectatorship

Forgetting Lot's Wife( )
Author: Harries, Martin
ISBN:978-0-8232-2733-4
Publication Date:Jun 2007
Publisher:Fordham University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $90.00
Book Description:

Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? In Forgetting Lot's Wife, Martin Harries provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century, and the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history lead back to the story of Lot's wife: looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, she turns into a pillar of salt. This story of punishment and transformation...
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Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Medical / Pain Management
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.928 x 8.931 x 0.585 Inches
Book Weight:1.465 Pounds



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