Trauma and ethics in the novels of Graham Swift
Subtitle: no short-cuts to salvation
By: Stef Craps.
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press; Liverpool University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Brighton; Portland [Or.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Swift, Graham, 1949- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Psychic trauma in literature.; Ethics in literature.; Memory in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: What went before : a Swift survey; title: Burying 'undying memories' : traumatic denial in The sweet shop owner; title: Getting rid of 'needless painful knowledge' : problem dissolving in Shuttlecock; title: 'To be realistic' : close encounters of a traumatic kind in Waterland; title: Cathartic fables, fabled catharses : photography, fiction and ethics in Out of this world; title: When mourning comes : ever after, or the world well won; title: 'All the same underneath'? : sympathy and ethics in Last orders; title: Adieu : stepping into the light of day.