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_aTrauma and romance in contemporary British literature / _cedited by Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega. |
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_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2013. |
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_avii, 267 p. ; _c24 cm. |
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505 | _aIntroduction / 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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_aEnglish fiction _xHistory and criticism. |
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650 | 0 | _aWounds and injuries in literature. | |
650 | 0 | _aPsychic trauma in literature. | |
650 | 7 | _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. | |
650 | 7 | _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General. | |
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