Terror and the Arts: Artistic, Literary, and Political Interpretations of Violence from Dostoyevsky

PART I: VISUALIZING TERROR The Implicated Spectator: From Manet to Botero; F. Möller Art in the Age of Terror: The Israeli Case; D. Arieli-Horowitz The Aura of Terror?; K. Lindroos PART II: FICTIONALIZING TERROR Dostoyevsky on Terror and the Question of the West; M. Heller To this Side of Good and Evil: Primo Levi as a Truth-Teller; T. Parvikko Narrating Trauma? Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance; K. Korhonen Too much Terror? J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and the Circulation of Trauma; M. Hyvärinen PART III: GOVERMENTAL TERROR Dictators and Dictatorships: Art and Politics in Romania and Chile (1974-1989); C. Preda Inciting Mental Terror as Effective Governmental Control: Chinese Propaganda Posters During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976); M. Valjakka The Sweet Hereafter of Machiavelli and Weber: Discussing Community and Responsibility as Political-ethical Criteria; J. Franzé PART IV: THE THEORY OF TERROR The Violence of Lying; O. Guaraldo Terrorized by Sound? Foucault on Terror, Resistance, and Sonorous Art; L. Siisiäinen