Elizabeth Bowen and the writing of trauma: the ethics of survival
Authored book
Book Title | Elizabeth Bowen and the writing of trauma: the ethics of survival |
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Book Category | Authored book |
ERA Publisher ID | 3126 |
Authors | |
Author | Gildersleeve, Jessica |
Number of Pages | 241 |
Series | Costerus New Series 202 |
Year | 2014 |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Place of Publication | Amsterdam and New York |
ISBN | 9789042037991 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.rodopi.nl/ntalpha.asp?BookId=COS+202&type=coming&letter=U |
Abstract | Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma: The Ethics of Survival 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. |
Keywords | trauma, ethics, literary theory, psychoanalysis, modernism, literature, Elizabeth Bowen |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 470504. British and Irish literature |
470514. Literary theory | |
Byline Affiliations | School of Arts and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q23x7/elizabeth-bowen-and-the-writing-of-trauma-the-ethics-of-survival
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