{"product_id":"the-language-of-trauma-9781487509422","title":"The Language of Trauma","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Napoleonic Wars to the invention of the railway to the shell shock of World War I, writers tried to give voice to the suffering that war and industrial technology had wrought all around them. Yet they, like the doctors who treated these victims, repeatedly ran up against the incapacity of language to describe such anguish; those who suffered trauma, those who tried to heal it, and those who represented it were all unable to find the appropriate words. In \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e, John Zilcosky uncovers the reactions of three major central European writers  E.T.A. Hoffmann, Sigmund Freud, and Franz Kafka  to the birth of modern trauma in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eZilcosky makes the case that Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka managed to find the language of trauma precisely by \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e attempting to name the trauma conclusively and instead allowing their writing to mimic the experience itself. Just as the victims’ symptoms seemed not to corr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments List of Illustrations   Introduction: Literature, Trauma, and the Sign of Illness   1. Hoffmann at the Battle of Dresden: “The Sandman” and the Napoleonic Wars 2. Freud and World War I: The Uncanny Trauma of Contagion 3. Inexplicable Tears: Trains, Wars, and Kafka’s Aesthetic of Indeterminacy   Conclusion: The Poetics of Trauma: Simulation, Causality, and the Crisis of Insurance   Notes Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409147076951,"sku":"9781487509422","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487509422.jpg?v=1730505614","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-language-of-trauma-9781487509422","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}