The Language of Trauma : War and Technology in Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka / John Zilcosky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zilcosky, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--History and criticism.

European literature.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Kafka, Franz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Summary:

Richly nuanced and firmly grounded in literature, biography, and history, The Language of Trauma analyses three major central European writers, revealing how they incorporated and responded to psychological and historical trauma.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Note on Translations

Introduction: Literature, Trauma, and the Sign of Illness

Chapter 1 Hoffmann at the Battle of Dresden: “The Sandman” and the Napoleonic Wars

Chapter 2 Freud and World War I: The Uncanny Trauma of Contagion

Chapter 3 Inexplicable Tears: Trains, Wars, and Kafka’s Aesthetic of Indeterminacy

Conclusion: The Poetics of Trauma: Simulation, Causality, and the Crisis of Insurance

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-0941-3

1-4875-0940-5

OCLC:

1343104052