Trauma / Lucy Bond and Stef Craps.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bond, Lucy, 1983- author.

Craps, Stef, author.

Series:

New critical idiom

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma in literature.

Crises in literature.

Stress Disorders, Traumatic.

Medical Subjects:

Stress Disorders, Traumatic.

Physical Description:

173 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps:provide an account of the history of the concept of trauma from the late nineteenth century to the present dayexamine debates around the term in their historical and cultural contextstrace the origins and growth of literary trauma theoryintroduce the reader to key thinkers in the fieldexplore important issues and tensions in the study of trauma as a cultural phenomenonoutline and assess recent critiques and revisions of cultural trauma researchTrauma is an essential guide to a rich and vibrant area of literary and cultural inquiry.

Contents:

1 The history of trauma p. 12

2 Words for wounds p. 45

3 Trauma theories p. 73

4 The future of trauma p. 103.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415540414

0415540410

9780415540421

0415540429

OCLC:

1022077998