Writing in pain : literature, history, and the culture of denial / Vaheed Ramazani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramazani, Vaheed K., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Denial (Psychology)--Social aspects.

Denial (Psychology).

Social psychology.

Psychology and literature.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

189 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Bringing poststructuralist theories of discourse into dialogue with biologically and culturally informed models of pain and affect, this book explores the representation of traumatic historical events such as war and revolution in literary texts by Flaubert, Baudelaire, and Zola. Focusing on the rising industrial capitalism of early modern France, Vaheed Ramanzani considers how the patterns of thought and practice developed during that period inflect a contemporary " culture of denial" and critiques the symbiosis between everyday forms of language and mass irruptions of violence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [139]-182) and index.

ISBN:

9780230600652

0230600654

OCLC:

154788790