1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910710295303321

Autore

Brown Paul Wencil

Titolo

Factors affecting the durability of adobe structures / / Paul Wencil Brown; Carl R. Robbins; James R. Clifton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gaithersburg, MD : , : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, , 1978

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

NBSIR ; ; 78-1495

Altri autori (Persone)

BrownPaul Wencil

CliftonJames R

RobbinsCarl R

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

1978.

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Title from PDF title page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910424624903321

Autore

Langas Unni

Titolo

Terrorizing Images : Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature / / Charles Ivan Armstrong, Unni Langas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2020

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

9783110693959

311069395X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 204 p.)

Collana

Culture & Conflict ; ; 16

Classificazione

EC 5197

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Encounters between Trauma and Ekphrasis, Words and Images -- De te fabula narratur! Violence and Representation in Peter Weiss's The Aesthetics of Resistance -- What Does It Mean To Be Human? Speculative Ekphrasis and Anthropocene Trauma in Don DeLillo's Zero K -- The Ordinariness of Trauma: Reconstructing Intertextuality as an Aesthetics of Trauma -- Terrorizing Images and Traumatic Anticipation in Michael Cunningham's The Hours -- Phantomogenic Ekphrasis: Traumatizing Images in Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days and Don DeLillo's Falling Man -- Reenacting Rape in Édouard Louis's History of Violence -- Empathic Vision? War Photography, Ekphrasis, and Memory in Bosnian War Literature -- Remedial Intermediality: Ekphrasis in Sinéad Morrissey's "The Doctors" -- Traumatizing Images of Belfast in Mary Costello's Novel Titanic Town -- Ekphrasis and the Holocaust: Traumatic Images in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones -- White Oblivion: Antarctica and the Suspension of Trauma -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

It is broadly accepted that "terrorizing" images are often instrumentalized in periods of conflict to serve political interests. This volume proposes that paying attention to how images of trauma and



conflict are described in literary texts, i.e. to the rhetorical practice known as "ekphrasis", is crucial to our understanding of how such images work. The volume's contributors discuss verbal images of trauma and terror in literary texts both from a contemporary perspective and as historical artefacts in order to illuminate the many different functions of ekphrasis in literature. The articles in this volume reflect the vast developments in the field of trauma studies since the 1990s, a field that has recently broadened to include genres beyond the memoir and testimony and that lends itself well to new postcolonial, feminist, and multimedia approaches. By expanding the scholarly understanding of how images of trauma are described, interpreted, and acted out in literary texts, this collected volume makes a significant contribution to both trauma and memory studies, as well as more broadly to cultural studies.