02614nam 2200541 450 991079561280332120220324162440.01-5017-5588-910.1515/9781501755897(CKB)5590000000470011(MiAaPQ)EBC6349453(DE-B1597)571790(DE-B1597)9781501755897(StDuBDS)EDZ0002656484(OCoLC)1200039068(EXLCZ)99559000000047001120210615d2021 fy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSin sick moral injury in war and literature /Joshua Pederson[electronic resource]Ithaca :Cornell University Press,2021.1 online resource (203 pages) illustrationsCornell scholarship onlineAlso issued in print: 2021.1-5017-5589-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction: Why We Need Moral Injury Now --1 Moral Injury: A Clinical Portrait --2 “My Sin Is Ever before Me”: Moral Injury and Literary Style --3 Moral Injury and Moral Repair in Crime and Punishment --4 “The Vices of Our Whole Generation”: Collective Moral Injury in The Fall --5 “Signature Wound”: Moral Injury in Iraq War Literature --Coda: “Witnessing” to Moral Injury? --Works Cited --IndexJoshua Pederson draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary theory of moral injury that addresses fictional representations of the mental anguish of those who have injured or killed others. Pederson's work foregrounds moral injury, a recent psychological concept distinct from trauma that is used to describe the psychic wounds suffered by those who breach their own deeply held ethical principles.Cornell scholarship online.Moral injuries in literaturePsychic trauma in literatureMoral conditions in literatureWar in literatureMoral injuries in literature.Psychic trauma in literature.Moral conditions in literature.War in literature.809.93581Pederson Joshua1504810StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910795612803321Sin sick3734033UNINA