• Media type: Book
  • Title: Between the urge to know and the need to deny : trauma and ethics in contemporary British and American literature
  • Contains: Introduction: between the urge to known [sic.] and the need to deny / Dolores Herrero and Sonia Baelo-Allué
    Framing trauma and ethics. Disquieted negative capability: the ethics of trauma in contemporary literature / Jean-Michel Ganteau
    "That was their deal" trauma narratives' ethical re-framings / Laurie Vickroy
    Trauma, gender and identity. Barred from the sublime: structural trauma and gender socialisation in Jenefer Shute's Life-size / Mónica Calvo
    Narratives of maternal loss in contemporary women's writing: Julie Myerson's The story of you / Sonya Andermahr
    Trauma and silence in Brian McCabe's "Say something" /Jessica Aliaga ; Between individual and collective trauma: narrative erasures in Fanny Howe's The deep north /Antoine Cazé ; The belated trauma of AIDS in Alan Hollinghurst's The swimming-pool library /José ma. Yebra-Pertusa ; Trauma and genre. Experimental fiction and trauma studies: the case of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five / Francisco Collado-Rodríguez
    Apocalypse, memory and survival: a reading of Cormac McCarthy's The road as trauma narrative / Paula Martín-- Gothic and trauma in Shirley Jackson's We have always lived in the castle / Marita Nadal-- Living with other people's ghosts: Patrick McGrath's Trauma / Jocelyn Dupont-- Masking and narrating trauma in Jane Yolen's Briar Rose: a holocaust fairy tale / María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro
    The circular memory of writing. A reading of American intertexts in Ruth Klüger's Landscapes of memory. A holocaust girlhood remembered /Luisa Juárez ; "To know, but not to know": myth and the working through of trauma in Eva Figes' Tales of innocence and experience / Silvia Pellicer-Ortín
    The paradoxical foregrounding of the intimate in the representation of a national trauma: 9/11, according to Don DeLillo / Marc Amfreville
    Individual trauma representation in graphic novels. The case of Paul Hornschemeier's Mother, come home and Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's Signal to noise / Andrés Romero-Jódar
    List of contributors.
  • Contributor: Campos-Herrero, Dolores [Editor]
  • Published: Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011
  • Published in: Anglistische Forschungen ; 413
  • Extent: 268 S.; 245 mm x 165 mm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 3825358844; 9783825358846
  • RVK notation: HN 1101 : Einzelne Stoffe und Motive
    HU 1691 : Einzelne Stoffe und Motive
    HN 1070 : Allgemeines
  • Keywords: USA > Literatur > Psychisches Trauma > Ethik > Geschichte 1950-2010
    Englisch > Literatur > Psychisches Trauma > Ethik > Geschichte 1950-2010
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  • Footnote: Literaturangaben

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