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Titre(s) : Trauma and romance in contemporary British literature [Texte imprimé] / edited by Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega
Publication : New York : Routledge, 2013
Description matérielle : vii, 267 p. ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 8
Lien à la collection : Routledge studies in contemporary literature
Comprend : Introduction / Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau. ; Part I. Ghost Stories, Repetition
and the Transmission of Trauma. "The Past Won't Fit into Memory without Something
Left over": Pat Barker's Another World, in between Narrative Entropy and Working Through
/ Jean-Michel Ganteau ; Hauntology as Compromise between Traumatic Realism and Spooky
Romance in Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger / Georges Letissier ; Personal Trauma,
Romance and Ghostly Traces in Justine Picardie's / Daphne Rosario Arias. ; Part II.
Narratives of Distress and Individual Trauma. Romance, Trauma and Repetition: Testing
the Limits of Love / Lynne Pearce ; Some Versions of Romance Trauma as Generated by
Realist Detail in Ian McEwan's Atonement / J. Hillis Miller ; Purloining the Image
of Trauma: Trauma, Photography, Testimony in Peter Roche's Unloved (2007) / Frédéric
Regard. ; Part III. Collective Trauma, History and Ethics. Strangers to Ourselves:
The Quest for the Self in Martin Amis' Trauma Fictions / Ángeles de la Concha ; Individual
Choice and Responsibility for the Other: Two Ethical Paths in the Traumatic Realism
of Jeanette Winterson's and Graham Swift's Postmodernist Romances / Christian Gutleben
; "And to defeat that shadow... he had to take it in homeopathically, in minute quantities
of conscious reparation": Adam Thorpe's Unsentimental Historical Romances / Maria
Grazia Nicolosi ; Greek Romance, Alternative History and Political Trauma in Alan
Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen / Andrés Romero-Jódar. ; Part IV. Therapeutic Romance.
From Traumatic Iteration to Healing Narrativisation in Shalimar the Clown by Salman
Rushdie: The Therapeutic Role of Romance / Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès ; Checking Out:
Trauma and Genre in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time / Brian Diemert ; "Redeemed, Now
and For Ever": Traumatic and Therapeutic Realism in Peter Ackroyd's The House of Doctor
Dee / Jakob Winnberg ; Index.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches including trauma theory, psychoanalysis,
genre theory, narrative theory, theories of temporality, cultural theory, and ethics,
this book breaks new ground in bringing together trauma and romance, two categories
whose collaboration has never been addressed in such a systematic and in-depth way.
The volume shows how romance strategies have become an essential component of trauma
fiction in general and traumatic realism in particular. It brings to the fore the
deconstructive powers of the darker type of romance and its adequacy to perform traumatic
acting out and fragmentation. It also zooms in on the variations on the ghost story
as medium for the evocation of trans-generational trauma, as well as on the therapeutic
drive of romance that favors a narrative presentation of the working-through phase
of trauma. Chapters explore various acceptations and extensions of psychic trauma,
from the individual to the cultural, analyzing narrative texts that belong in various
genres from the ghost story to the misery memoir to the graphic novel. The selection
of primary sources allows for a review of leading contemporary British authors such
as Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift, Sarah Waters
and Jeanette Winterson, and of those less canonical such as Jackie Kay, Alan Moore
and Dave Gibbons, Justine Picardie, Peter Roche and Adam Thorpe. " ; "Drawing on a
variety of theoretical approaches including trauma theory, psychoanalysis, genre theory,
narrative theory, theories of temporality, cultural theory, and ethics, this book
brings together trauma and romance, showing how romance strategies have become an
essential component of trauma fiction in general and traumatic realism in particular"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Ganteau, Jean-Michel. Éditeur scientifique
Onega Jaén, Susana (1948-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Roman anglais -- 2000-....
Lésions et blessures -- Dans la littérature
Traumatisme psychique -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415661072 (hardback). - ISBN 0415661072 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb436162840
Notice n° :
FRBNF43616284
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