Trauma and romance in contemporary British literature /
Trauma and romance in contemporary British literature /
edited by Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega.
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- vii, 267 p. ; 24 cm.
Introduction / Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau. --
Part I. Ghost Stories, Repetition and the Transmission of Trauma. "The Past Won't Fit into Memory without Something Left over": Pat Barker's Another World, in between Narrative Entropy and Working Through / Jean-Michel Ganteau ; Hauntology as Compromise between Traumatic Realism and Spooky Romance in Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger / Georges Letissier ; Personal Trauma, Romance and Ghostly Traces in Justine Picardie's / Daphne Rosario Arias. --
Part II. Narratives of Distress and Individual Trauma. Romance, Trauma and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love / Lynne Pearce ; Some Versions of Romance Trauma as Generated by Realist Detail in Ian McEwan's Atonement / J. Hillis Miller ; Purloining the Image of Trauma: Trauma, Photography, Testimony in Peter Roche's Unloved (2007) / Frédéric Regard. --
Part III. Collective Trauma, History and Ethics. Strangers to Ourselves: The Quest for the Self in Martin Amis' Trauma Fictions / Ángeles de la Concha ; Individual Choice and Responsibility for the Other: Two Ethical Paths in the Traumatic Realism of Jeanette Winterson's and Graham Swift's Postmodernist Romances / Christian Gutleben ; "And to defeat that shadow ... he had to take it in homeopathically, in minute quantities of conscious reparation": Adam Thorpe's Unsentimental Historical Romances / Maria Grazia Nicolosi ; Greek Romance, Alternative History and Political Trauma in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen / Andrés Romero-Jódar. --
Part IV. Therapeutic Romance. From Traumatic Iteration to Healing Narrativisation in Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie: The Therapeutic Role of Romance / Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès ; Checking Out: Trauma and Genre in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time / Brian Diemert ; "Redeemed, Now and For Ever": Traumatic and Therapeutic Realism in Peter Ackroyd's The House of Doctor Dee / Jakob Winnberg --
Index.
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English fiction--History and criticism.
Wounds and injuries in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
823.0093561 / GAN/T
Introduction / Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau. --
Part I. Ghost Stories, Repetition and the Transmission of Trauma. "The Past Won't Fit into Memory without Something Left over": Pat Barker's Another World, in between Narrative Entropy and Working Through / Jean-Michel Ganteau ; Hauntology as Compromise between Traumatic Realism and Spooky Romance in Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger / Georges Letissier ; Personal Trauma, Romance and Ghostly Traces in Justine Picardie's / Daphne Rosario Arias. --
Part II. Narratives of Distress and Individual Trauma. Romance, Trauma and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love / Lynne Pearce ; Some Versions of Romance Trauma as Generated by Realist Detail in Ian McEwan's Atonement / J. Hillis Miller ; Purloining the Image of Trauma: Trauma, Photography, Testimony in Peter Roche's Unloved (2007) / Frédéric Regard. --
Part III. Collective Trauma, History and Ethics. Strangers to Ourselves: The Quest for the Self in Martin Amis' Trauma Fictions / Ángeles de la Concha ; Individual Choice and Responsibility for the Other: Two Ethical Paths in the Traumatic Realism of Jeanette Winterson's and Graham Swift's Postmodernist Romances / Christian Gutleben ; "And to defeat that shadow ... he had to take it in homeopathically, in minute quantities of conscious reparation": Adam Thorpe's Unsentimental Historical Romances / Maria Grazia Nicolosi ; Greek Romance, Alternative History and Political Trauma in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen / Andrés Romero-Jódar. --
Part IV. Therapeutic Romance. From Traumatic Iteration to Healing Narrativisation in Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie: The Therapeutic Role of Romance / Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès ; Checking Out: Trauma and Genre in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time / Brian Diemert ; "Redeemed, Now and For Ever": Traumatic and Therapeutic Realism in Peter Ackroyd's The House of Doctor Dee / Jakob Winnberg --
Index.
9780415661072 (hardback) 0415661072 (hardback)
English fiction--History and criticism.
Wounds and injuries in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
823.0093561 / GAN/T