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Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma 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.

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Acknowledgements Introduction: “We Must Live How We Can” Chapter 1: Wound: The Hotel and To the North Chapter 2: Supplement: The Last September Chapter 3: Remains: The House in Paris and Friends and Relations Chapter 4: Death Sleep: The Death of the Heart Chapter 5: Safe: Wartime Short Fiction Chapter 6: Unknown: The Heat of the Day Chapter 7: Post: A World of Love Chapter 8: Crypt: The Little Girls Chapter 9: However: Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes Postscript Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 01/01/2014
      ISBN13: 9789042037991, 978-9042037991
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma 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.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements Introduction: “We Must Live How We Can” Chapter 1: Wound: The Hotel and To the North Chapter 2: Supplement: The Last September Chapter 3: Remains: The House in Paris and Friends and Relations Chapter 4: Death Sleep: The Death of the Heart Chapter 5: Safe: Wartime Short Fiction Chapter 6: Unknown: The Heat of the Day Chapter 7: Post: A World of Love Chapter 8: Crypt: The Little Girls Chapter 9: However: Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes Postscript Bibliography Index

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