Ethics and trauma in contemporary British fiction

Ethics and trauma in contemporary British fiction / edited by Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau.

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...

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Other Authors: Onega Jaén, Susana (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2011.
Series:DQR studies in literature ; 48.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Ethics in literature.
British literature > 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
British literature
Ethics in literature
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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