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090			_aPR756.W69 _bT73 2013
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245	0	0	_aTrauma and romance in contemporary British literature _h[electronic resource] / _cedited by Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega.
260			_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2013.
300			_avii, 267 p.
490	1		_aRoutledge studies in contemporary literature ; _v8
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_apt. 1. Ghost stories, repetition and the transmission of trauma -- pt. 2. Narratives of distress and individual trauma -- pt. 3. Collective trauma, history and ethics -- pt. 4. Therapeutic romance.
520			_a"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. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
530			_aAlso available in print edition.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y21st century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aWounds and injuries in literature.
650		0	_aPsychic trauma in literature.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2lcsh
700	1		_aGanteau, Jean-Michel.
700	1		_aOnega Jaãaen, Susana.
776			_z9780415661072 (hardback)
830			_aRoutledge studies in contemporary literature ; _v8.
856			_uhttp://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203073766 _zClick here to view
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