John Zilcosky

The Language of Trauma

War and Technology in Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Richly nuanced and firmly grounded in literature, biography, and history, The Language of Trauma analyses three major central European writers, revealing how they incorporated and responded to psychological and historical trauma.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781487509422
• ISBN-10: 1487509421
• Artikelnr.: 60605218

Autorenporträt

John Zilcosky is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
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