Columbia: Bruce Robbins Takes on Suffering in His New Book
May 01, 2025
May 01, 2025
NEW YORK, May 1 -- Columbia University issued the following news:
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Bruce Robbins Takes on Suffering in His New Book
Atrocity: A Literary History explores written representations of mass violence.
In Atrocity: A Literary History, Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, ventures from the Bible to Zadie Smith. He explores the literature of suffering, to show how, over time, abhorrence of mass violence takes shape. . . .
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Bruce Robbins Takes on Suffering in His New Book
Atrocity: A Literary History explores written representations of mass violence.
In Atrocity: A Literary History, Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, ventures from the Bible to Zadie Smith. He explores the literature of suffering, to show how, over time, abhorrence of mass violence takes shape. . . .