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Literary aesthetics of trauma : = Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literary aesthetics of trauma :/ Reina Van der Wiel.
Reminder of title:	Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson /
Author:	Wiel, Reina Van der,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	1900 - 1999 -
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism - 20th century. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137311016
ISBN:	1137311010 (electronic bk.)

Literary aesthetics of trauma : = Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson /
Wiel, Reina Van der,

Literary aesthetics of trauma :Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson /Reina Van der Wiel. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, Literary Form -- 2. Writing the Body: Trauma, Woolf, Winterson -- 3. Symbolization, Thinking and Working-Through: British Object Relations Theory -- 4. 'The Most Difficult Abstract Piece of Writing': 'Time Passes' as Container -- 5. 'Ideas of Feeling': Symbolic Transformation in Modernist Formalist Aesthetics -- 6. Woolf's Embodied Cognitive Aesthetics: The Waves -- 7. From Form to Feeling: Trauma and Affective Excess in Art and Lies -- 8. 'The Story of My Life': Winterson's Adoption, Art and Autobiography -- 9. Coda.

"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 culturally perceived and 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 Modernism's emphasis on impersonality and narrative abstraction has been replaced by the contemporary trauma memoir and an ethical imperative to bear witness. This book diverges from the deconstructive trend in academic trauma studies that prioritizes a model of narrative rupture, whereby literary form replicates traumatic symptoms. Instead, it presents an object relations theory model, which emphasizes the importance of narrative 'containment' and 'working-through' of traumatic emotion by achieving at least some critical distance. From this perspective, it analyses modernism's formalist aesthetics, particularly as displayed in two of Woolf's most formally abstract novels. It contrasts this approach with Winterson's 'new baroque' aesthetics and the increasingly 'authentic' reappearance of the traumatic adoption story in her work.

ISBN: 1137311010 (electronic bk.)

Source: 660444Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

941609
Winterson, Jeanette,
1959---Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Chronological Terms:

1900 - 1999
Subjects--Topical Terms:

940793
English literature
--History and criticism--20th century.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

993252
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PN56.P93

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/0091

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