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Record Nr.

UNINA9910156232503321

Autore

Van der Wiel Reina

Titolo

Literary Aesthetics of Trauma : Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson / / by Reina Van der Wiel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

1-349-45682-9

1-137-31101-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Classificazione

18.05

17.93

Disciplina

823/.912

Soggetti

British literature

Literature—History and criticism

Literature, Modern—20th century

Literature—Philosophy

Fiction

Aesthetics

British and Irish Literature

Literary History

Twentieth-Century Literature

Literary Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, Literary Form; 1 Writing the Body: Trauma, Woolf, Winterson; 2 Symbolization, Thinking and Working-Through: British Object Relations Theory; 3 ''The Most Difficult Abstract Piece of Writing'': ''Time Passes'' as Container; 4 ''Ideas of Feeling'': Symbolic Transformation in Modernist Formalist Aesthetics; 5 Woolf''s Embodied Cognitive Aesthetics: The Waves; 6 From Form to Feeling: Trauma and Affective Excess in Art & Lies; 7 ''The Story of My Life'': Winterson''s Adoption, Art and Autobiography; Coda; Notes; Bibliography

Index



Sommario/riassunto

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 Modernism's emphasis on impersonality and narrative abstraction has been replaced by the contemporary trauma memoir and an ethical imperative to bear witness.