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Elizabeth Bowen and the writing of trauma : the ethics of survival / Jessica Gildersleeve ; Aart Jan Bergshoeff, cover design.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gildersleeve, Jessica, author.
- Series:
- Costerus New Series 202.
- Costerus New Series ; 202
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bowen, Elizabeth.
- Women and literature--Ireland--History.
- Women and literature.
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma analyses the treatment of memory and the past in Bowen’s writing through the lens of trauma theory. It draws on the theories of Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Sigmund Freud, and Cathy Caruth, to propose that Bowen’s work is best understood through the psychological, narratological, and linguistic effects of trauma in her fiction. Bowen’s writing complicates existing deconstructive and psychoanalytic models of trauma and literature, and testifies to the responsibility of survival and the ethics of bearing witness.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- “WE MUST LIVE HOW WE CAN”
- WOUND: THE HOTEL AND TO THE NORTH
- SUPPLEMENT: THE LAST SEPTEMBER
- REMAINS: THE HOUSE IN PARIS AND FRIENDS AND RELATIONS
- DEATH SLEEP: THE DEATH OF THE HEART
- SAFE: WARTIME SHORT FICTION
- UNKNOWN: THE HEAT OF THE DAY
- POST: A WORLD OF LOVE
- CRYPT: THE LITTLE GIRLS
- HOWEVER: EVA TROUT, OR CHANGING SCENES
- POSTSCRIPT
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 27, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4619-5879-2
- 94-012-1047-0
- OCLC:
- 876592577
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789401210478 DOI
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