Literary Aesthetics of Trauma [electronic resource] : Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson /
Van der Wiel, Reina.author.
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 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 Modernism's emphasis on impersonality and narrative abstraction has been replaced by the contemporary trauma memoir and an ethical imperative to bear witness.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, Literary Form; 1 Writing the Body: Trauma, Woolf, Winterson; 2 Symbolization, Thinking and Working-Through: British Object Relations Theory; 3 ''The Most Difficult Abstract Piece of Writing'': ''Time Passes'' as Container; 4 ''Ideas of Feeling'': Symbolic Transformation in Modernist Formalist Aesthetics; 5 Woolf''s Embodied Cognitive Aesthetics: The Waves; 6 From Form to Feeling: Trauma and Affective Excess in Art & Lies; 7 ''The Story of My Life'': Winterson''s Adoption, Art and Autobiography; Coda; Notes; Bibliography
Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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 Modernism's emphasis on impersonality and narrative abstraction has been replaced by the contemporary trauma memoir and an ethical imperative to bear witness.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
British literature.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Fiction.
Aesthetics.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Fiction.
Aesthetics.