Trauma, Transcendence, and Trust [electronic resource] : Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot Thinking Loss /
Brennan, T.author.
Thomas Brennan finds roots of the 'sensibility of trauma' by returning to the work of Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot. By reading these poets of mourning through the framework of trauma, Brennan reflects on our traumatized moment and weighs two potential responses - the fantasy of transcendence and the ethic of trust.
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Coverpage; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Traumatized Trust; 1 Gazes of Trauma, Spots of Trust:Wordsworth's Memorials in The Prelude; 2 "Wound" in the "Living Soul":Tennyson's In Memoriam; 3 Castrated Referentiality:Eliot's The Waste Land; Epilogue: "The Tone We Trusted Most":Merrill's The Book of Ephraim; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thomas Brennan finds roots of the 'sensibility of trauma' by returning to the work of Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot. By reading these poets of mourning through the framework of trauma, Brennan reflects on our traumatized moment and weighs two potential responses - the fantasy of transcendence and the ethic of trust.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Poetry.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Poetry and Poetics.