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008 140115s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013045919
020 $a9781138024496 (hbk)
020 $z9781315774534 (ebk)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN56.P93$bC66 2014
082 00 $a809/.93353$223
084 $aLIT006000$aLIT000000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aContemporary trauma narratives :$bliminality and the ethics of form /$cEdited by Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau.
264 1 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2014.
300 $aviii, 253 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aRoutledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature,$v27
520 $a"This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contemporary British, Irish, US, Canadian, and German writers. Building on the psychological insights and theorizing of the fathers of trauma studies (Janet, Freud, Ferenczi) and of contemporary trauma critics and theorists, the articles examine the narrative strategies, structural experimentations and hybridizations of forms, paying special attention to the way in which the texts fight the unrepresentability of trauma by performing rather than representing it. The ethicality or unethicality involved in this endeavor is assessed from the combined perspectives of the non-foundational, non-cognitive, discursive ethics of alterity inspired by Emmanuel Levinas, and the ethics of vulnerability. This approach makes Contemporary Trauma Narratives an excellent resource for scholars of contemporary literature, trauma studies and literary theory"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart I. Ethics and Generic Hybridity -- Part II. Ethics and the Aesthetics of Excess -- Part III. Ethics and Structural Experimentation.
650 0 $aPsychic trauma in literature.
650 0 $aLiminality in literature.
650 0 $aEthics in literature.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aGanteau, Jean-Michel,$eeditor.
700 1 $aOnega Jaén, Susana,$eeditor.