| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 269 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-263) and index. |
| Summary |
Alan Gibbs examines the way American writers present the effects of trauma in their work. Trauma has become an important and influential paradigm for reading contemporary American literature. Too often, however, criticism has adopted narrow models of trauma, resulting in increasingly formulaic and clichéd interpretations. This study understands trauma on a wider basis than Freudian psychoanalysis, incorporating theories drawn from fields including narratology, in order to analyse devices characteristically employed by writers in order to represent and, often, to mimic the effects of trauma. |
| Contents |
Title page; Imprint; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Twentieth-Century Trauma Narratives: Some Paradigmatic Texts; 2 Traumatic Metafiction and Ontological Crisis; 3 9/11, Collective Trauma, and Postmodernist Responses; 4 Gulf War Memoirs and Perpetrator Trauma; 5 It Could Happen Here: Trauma and Contemporary American Counterfactuals; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Psychology in literature.
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Psychology in literature. |
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Psychic trauma in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
2000 - 2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gibbs, Alan, 1968- author. Contemporary American trauma narratives 9780748641147 (OCoLC)885281353 |
| ISBN |
9780748694082 (electronic book) |
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0748694080 (electronic book) |
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9780748641147 |
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0748641149 |
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9780748694075 |
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0748694072 |
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9780748694099 (epub) |
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