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The Nature of Trauma in American Novels
Michelle Balaev
出版Northwestern University Press, 2012-06-11
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / NaturePsychology / General
ISBN08101281959780810128194
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NCtWh9RlQ0kC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"This book examines literary trauma theory from its foundations to its implementations and new possibilities. ... [A]n analysis that reconsiders the meaning and value of traumatic experience by demonstrating the diversity of its forms in contemporary Amerian novels in an effort to deepen the discussion of trauma beyond that of the disease-driven paradigm in literary criticism today. ... [The author's] model views trauma and the process of remembering within a framework that emphasizes the multiplicity of responses to an extreme experience and the importance of contextual factors in detemining the significance of the event. In order to demonstrate this new approach, [she focuses her] discussion on late-modern canonical and emergent American novels that deal with trauma. In analyzing the narrative methods authors employ to portray suffering, [she] found two major patterns: the use of landscape imagery to convey the effects of trauma and remembering, and the use of place as a site that shapes the protagonist's experience and perception of the world."--Introduction.