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This thesis explores the 'theories of Bataille and Baudrillard' in relation to the problem of extreme violence. The particular events of concern are the death of James Bulger, the Dunblane massacre and the 'serial killers' Frederick and Rosemary West. The thesis argues that domi…

A Hebrew play on words, an insult in Yiddish, and American indifference to suffering populate two notable German language Holocaust memoirs. Weiter leben: eine Jugend by Ruth Klüger and Ich trug den gelben Stern by Inge Deutschkron are prime examples of the complexities and bene…

The dissertation considers how a heterogeneous group of observers in the disciplines of natural history and lyric poetry write their attention to the natural world. The “intelligence” of their attention refers to the writing itself, as observation that bridges the divide between…