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Ethics and trauma in contemporary British fiction /
This volume is the first book of criticism to provide a systematic analysis of a corpus of emblematic contemporary British fictions from the combined perspective of trauma theory and ethics. Although the fictional work of writers such as Graham Swift has already been approached from this perspective...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2011.
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| Colección: | DQR studies in literature ;
48. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Reading Trauma in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy; The Ethical Clock of Trauma in Eva Figes' Winter Journey; "Nobody's Meat": Revisiting Rape and Sexual Trauma through Angela Carter; "A New Algebra": The Poetics and Ethics of Trauma in J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition; Trauma as the Negation of Autonomy: Michael Moorcock's Mother London; Where Madness Lies: Holocaust Representation and the Ethics of Form in Martin Amis' Time's Arrow; World War II Fiction and the Ethics of Trauma.
- "A Terrible Beauty": Ethics, Aesthetics and the Trauma of Gayness in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty"The Eternal Loop of Self-Torture": Ethics and Trauma in Ian McEwan's Atonement; Conjunctures of Uneasiness: Trauma in Fay Weldon's The Heart of the Country and in Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach; Representing the Child Soldier: Trauma, Postcolonialism and Ethics in Delia Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen and Me; The Trauma Paradigm and the Ethics of Affect in Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods; Notes on Contributors; Index.