{"product_id":"sin-sick-9781501755873","title":"Sin Sick","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSin Sick,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Pederson draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary theory of moral injury that addresses fictional representations of the mental anguish of those who have injured or killed others.\u003c\/b\u003e Pederson''s work foregrounds moral injury, a recent psychological concept distinct from trauma that is used to describe the psychic wounds suffered by those who breach their own deeply held ethical principles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplementing writings on trauma theory that posit the textual manifestation of trauma as absence, \u003ci\u003eSin Sick\u003c\/i\u003e argues that moral injury appears in literature in a variety of forms of excess. Pederson closely reads works by Dostoevsky (\u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e), Camus (\u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e), and veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (Brian Turner''s\u003ci\u003e Here, Bullet\u003c\/i\u003e; Kevin Powers'' \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Birds\u003c\/i\u003e; Phil Klay''s \u003ci\u003eRedeployment\u003c\/i\u003e; and Roy Scrant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Why We Need Moral Injury Now\u003cbr\u003e 1. Moral Injury: A Clinical Portrait\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"My Sin Is Ever before Me\": Moral Injury and Literary Style\u003cbr\u003e 3. Moral Injury and Moral Repair in Crime and Punishment\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"The Vices of Our Whole Generation\": Collective Moral Injury in The Fall\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"Signature Wound\": Moral Injury in Iraq War Literature\u003cbr\u003e Coda: \"Witnessing\" to Moral Injury?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409351778647,"sku":"9781501755873","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sin-sick-9781501755873","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}