Modern nostalgia : Siegfried Sassoon, trauma and the Second World War /

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This book explores Siegfried Sassoon's writing of the twenties, thirties and forties, demonstrating the connections between trauma and nostalgia in a culture saturated with the anxieties of war. Informed by the texts of Freud, W.H.R. Rivers and other psychological writers of the early twentieth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hemmings, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Sassoon, Siegfried, > 1886-1967 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sassoon, Siegfried, > 1886-1967
Sassoon, Siegfried > 1886-1967
Psychic trauma in literature.
Nostalgia in literature.
War in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Medicine in Literature
Stress Disorders, Traumatic > psychology
History, 20th Century
Literature, Modern > history
Warfare
Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
Nostalgie dans la littérature.
Guerre dans la littérature.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Medicine in literature
Nostalgia in literature
Psychic trauma in literature
War in literature
Nostalgie
Trauma
Weltkrieg > 1914-1918
Weltkrieg > 1939-1945
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Space Between the Wars; 2. Rivers, Myers and the Culture of War Neuroses; 3. Witnessing and Survival: The Challenge of 'Autognosis' in the Interwar Years; 4. Wartime Revisited: Ghosts and Spirits in Sassoon's Patriotic Verse of the Second World War; 5. Look Back to 'Gladness': Nostalgia and Sassoon's Personal Poems, 1940-5; 6. Narcissism and Autognosis: Sassoon, 1936-42; 7. Liminal Moments, Uncanny Spaces: Sassoon's Autobiography and the Modern Subject; Conclusion; Index.

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