Roger Luckhurst

The Trauma Question

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Outlines the origins of the concept of trauma across psychiatric, legal and cultural-political sources from the 1860s to the coining of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in 1980. This book covers a diverse range of cultural works, including writers such as Toni Morrison, Stephen King and W G Sebald.

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First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780415402729
• ISBN-10: 0415402727
• Artikelnr.: 25683357

Autorenporträt

Roger Luckhurst teaches in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of "The Angle Between the Walls": The Fiction of J.G. Ballard (1997), The Invention of Telepathy (2002) and Science Fiction (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part One: Etymology 1. The Genealogy of a Concept Part Two:
Cultural Symptoms Introduction: Trauma and Narrative Knowledge 2. Trauma in
Narrative Fiction 3. My So-Called Life: The Memoir Boom 4. The Intrusive
Image: Photography and Trauma 5. Flashbacks, Mosaics and Loops: Trauma and
Narrative Cinema Afterward Bibiography