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Autore |
Rippl Gabriele |
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Titolo |
Haunted Narratives : Life Writing in an Age of Trauma / / Gabriele Rippl; Philipp Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, Therese Steffen |
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Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] |
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©2013 |
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1-4426-6420-7 |
1-4426-6419-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (361 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Autobiography |
Biography as a literary form |
Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism |
Autobiography in literature |
Biography in literature |
Psychic trauma in literature |
Memory in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma / Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, and Therese Steffen -- Part One: Life Writing and Trauma: Theorizing the Vicissitudes of Representing Violence. 1 Seeing Ghosts: Theorizing Haunting in Literary Texts / Tiina Kirss -- 2 Trauma and Utopia: Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's / Night Philipp Schweighauser. |
Part Three: Limit-cases: Exploring the Limits of Telling Pain. 9 "Metaphors for the Scots Today": History and National Identity in Scottish Drama after 1945 / Stefanie Preuss -- 10 Aspects of Post-Imperial Constructions of Nationhood / Eva Rein -- 11 Anecdotalization of Memory in Jaan Kross's Paigallend / Eneken Laanes -- 12 Meddling with Memory -- Negating Grand Narratives / Nora Anna Escherle -- 13 Fighting Fear with Writing: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / Aija Sakova -- 14 The Stigma of the Autobiographical / |
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Julia Straub -- 15 The Search for the Lost Parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / Eva Rein -- 16 Making the Silence Speak: A Critical Discussion of Trauma Transmission and Identity Formation / Stefanie Preuss. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories. |
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