Sin sick : moral injury in war and literature /

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"Moral injury is the name given to the lasting psychological damage that sometimes follows the commission or witnessing of a grievous wrong. This book introduces the concept to literary trauma studies while identifying and analyzing notable examples of moral injury in a variety of novels, poems...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pederson, Joshua (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Psychic trauma in literature.
Moral conditions in literature.
War in literature.
Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
Conditions morales dans la littérature.
Guerre dans la littérature.
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Literary criticism.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: why we need moral injury now
  • Moral injury, a clinical portrait
  • My sin is ever before me: moral injury and literary style
  • Moral injury and moral repair in Crime and punishment
  • The vices of our whole generation: collective moral injury in The Fall
  • Signature wound: moral injury in Iraq War literature
  • Witnessing to moral injury?

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