Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson

Van der Wiel, Reina

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 Modernism's emphasis on impersonality and narrative abstraction has been replaced by the contemporary trauma memoir and an ethical imperative to bear witness.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2014-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349456826

DOI: 10.1057/9781137311016

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 255