Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction.
Başlık:
Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction.
Yazar:
Onega, Susana.
ISBN:
9789401200080
Yazar Ek Girişi:
Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (324 pages)
Seri:
DQR Studies in Literature, 48
İçerik:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Reading Trauma in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy -- The Ethical Clock of Trauma in Eva Figes' Winter Journey -- "Nobody's Meat": Revisiting Rape and Sexual Trauma through Angela Carter -- "A New Algebra": The Poetics and Ethics of Trauma in J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition -- Trauma as the Negation of Autonomy: Michael Moorcock's Mother London -- Where Madness Lies: Holocaust Representation and the Ethics of Form in Martin Amis' Time's Arrow -- World War II Fiction and the Ethics of Trauma -- "A Terrible Beauty": Ethics, Aesthetics and the Trauma of Gayness in Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty -- "The Eternal Loop of Self-Torture": Ethics and Trauma in Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Conjunctures of Uneasiness: Trauma in Fay Weldon's The Heart of the Country and in Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach -- Representing the Child Soldier: Trauma, Postcolonialism and Ethics in Delia Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen and Me -- The Trauma Paradigm and the Ethics of Affect in Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Özet:
This volume is the first book of criticism to provide a systematic analysis of a corpus of emblematic contemporary British fictions from the combined perspective of trauma theory and ethics. Although the fictional work of writers such as Graham Swift has already been approached from this perspective, none of the individual works or authors under analysis in the twelve essays collected in this volume has been given such a systematic and in-depth scrutiny to date. This study, which is addressed to academics and university students of British literature and culture, focuses on the literary representation of trauma in key works by Martin Amis, J. G. Ballard, Pat Barker, John Boyne, Angela Carter, Eva Figes, Alan Hollinghurst, Delia Jarrett-Macauley, A.L. Kennedy, Ian McEwan, Michael Moorcock, Fay Weldon and Jeanette Winterson, within the context of the "ethical turn" in the related fields of literary theory and moral philosophy that has influenced literary criticism over the last three decades, with a special focus on the ethics of alterity, the ethics of truths, and deconstructive ethics.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Tür:
Yazar Ek Girişi:
Elektronik Erişim:
Click to View