Literary Aesthetics Of Trauma: Virginia Woolf And Jeanette Winterson Hardcover
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Reina Van der Wiel
Book Description
Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson investigates a fundamental shift, from the 1920s to the present day, in the way that trauma is aesthetically expressed. Modernism's emphasis on impersonality and narrative abstraction has been replaced by the contemporary trauma memoir and an ethical imperative to bear witness.
ISBN-10
1137311002
ISBN-13
9781137311009
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date
08 Apr 2014
About the Author
Reina van der Wiel is Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and has also taught English Literature at Birkbeck and Middlesex University. She has published work in Women: A Cultural Review and Scenes of Intimacy: Writing, Reading and Theorizing Contemporary Literature, edited by Jennifer Cooke.
Editorial Review
...this is a book of prodigious scholarship with a carefully considered, contemporary message.' - Dianne M. Hunter, Woolf Studies Annual