Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School June 2019 Intimate Fictions: The Rhetorical Strategies of Obscene Violence in Four Novels Steven Monk Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College,
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[email protected]. INTIMATE FICTIONS: THE RHETORICAL STRATEGIES OF OBSCENE VIOLENCE IN FOUR NOVELS A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of English by Steven Monk B.A., Northeastern Illinois University, 2013 M.A., Louisiana State University, 2017 August 2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ..........................................................................................................................iii INTRODUCTION: THE INTIMACY OF VIOLENCE ......................................................1