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  1. The trauma novel
    contemporary symbolic depictions of collective disaster
    Erschienen: c1995
    Verlag:  Peter Lang, New York

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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780820427362; 9781453910016
    RVK Klassifikation: EC 6727 ; HN 1331
    Schriftenreihe: American university studies ; v. 55
    Schlagworte: English fiction; Disasters in literature; American fiction; Canadian fiction; Literature and society; Psychic trauma in literature; Symbolism in literature; Katastrophe <Motiv>; Katastrophe; Psychisches Trauma; Roman; Englisch
    Weitere Schlagworte: Coetzee, J. M. (1940-); Tournier, Michel (1924-2016); Atwood, Margaret (1939-)
    Umfang: viii, 200 p
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-190) and index

  2. The Trauma Novel
    Contemporary Symbolic Depictions of Collective Disaster
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc, New York

    This study attempts to make sense of a group of novels that deal in a symbolic way with contemporary forms of collective disaster (the prospect of nuclear war, the Holocaust, environmental destruction). It shows similarities among British, American,... mehr

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    This study attempts to make sense of a group of novels that deal in a symbolic way with contemporary forms of collective disaster (the prospect of nuclear war, the Holocaust, environmental destruction). It shows similarities among British, American, Canadian and other novels never before grouped together and argues that they constitute a distinct sub-genre of fiction: the trauma novel. In so doing, the book sets forth an original theory about how literary symbolism functions as part of a cultural response to collective trauma

     

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    Umfang: Online-Ressource (212 p)
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    Contents; INTRODUCTION 1; CHAPTER ONE: Dealing with "It": The Categorical Challenge of the Trauma Novel: (Carter, Lessing, Hoban, Vonnegut, Amis) 21; CHAPTER TWO: Elemental Dissolution: Trauma and Transformation: (Kosinski, Golding, Findley, Hoban) 65; CHAPTER THREE: The Stages of Trauma Response: Regression, Fragmentation, and Reunification: (Atwood, Tournier, Thomas) 107; CHAPTER FOUR: Generic Considerations: Postmodernism and the Trauma Novel: (Coetzee, Pynchon) 151; NOTES 177; WORKS CITED 179; INDEX 191;