{"id":2683,"date":"2010-06-28T07:57:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T07:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2010-06-29T22:45:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T22:45:03","slug":"martin-amis-literature-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/28\/martin-amis-literature-and-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"martin amis.  literature and violence."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, 1 July 2010, Martin Amis will be discussing literature and violence at The Martin Harris Centre with guests Blake Morrison and John Gray.   They&#8217;ll be mulling over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>The psychological and cultural roots of violent acts, and the ways in which writers from Shakespeare to JG Ballard depict and respond to it. <\/em> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Martin-Amis.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Martin Amis\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Martin-Amis.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Martin-Amis-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><center>Martin Amis via the Metro<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always read a great deal by and about Professor Amis but I never seem to find time to sit down and write about him properly. <em>  Ce la vie.<\/em>  I&#8217;m sure this discussion, like all the others, will make for good copy.  If you&#8217;d like to attend, tickets are \u00a37 from the venue &#8211; the   University of Manchester&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.manchester.ac.uk\/martinharriscentre\/\"target=_blank>Martin Harris Centre<\/a> (0161 275 8951 \/ boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk) located on Bridgeford Street just off Oxford Road. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, 1 July 2010, Martin Amis will be discussing literature and violence at The Martin Harris Centre with guests Blake Morrison and John Gray. They&#8217;ll be mulling over&#8230; The psychological and cultural roots of violent acts, and the ways in which writers from Shakespeare to JG Ballard depict and respond to it. Martin Amis<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-writing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}