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Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma
The Ethics of Survival
Series: - Costerus New Series Online, Volume: 202
- Costerus New Series, Volume: 202
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Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma analyses the treatment of memory and the past in Bowenâs writing through the lens of trauma theory. It draws on the theories of Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Sigmund Freud, and Cathy Caruth, to propose that Bowenâs work is best understood through the psychological, narratological, and linguistic effects of trauma in her fiction. Bowenâs writing complicates existing deconstructive and psychoanalytic models of trauma and literature, and testifies to the responsibility of survival and the ethics of bearing witness.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: âWe Must Live How We Canâ
Chapter 1: Wound: The Hotel and To the North
Chapter 2: Supplement: The Last September
Chapter 3: Remains: The House in Paris and Friends and Relations
Chapter 4: Death Sleep: The Death of the Heart
Chapter 5: Safe: Wartime Short Fiction
Chapter 6: Unknown: The Heat of the Day
Chapter 7: Post: A World of Love
Chapter 8: Crypt: The Little Girls
Chapter 9: However: Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes
Postscript
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: âWe Must Live How We Canâ
Chapter 1: Wound: The Hotel and To the North
Chapter 2: Supplement: The Last September
Chapter 3: Remains: The House in Paris and Friends and Relations
Chapter 4: Death Sleep: The Death of the Heart
Chapter 5: Safe: Wartime Short Fiction
Chapter 6: Unknown: The Heat of the Day
Chapter 7: Post: A World of Love
Chapter 8: Crypt: The Little Girls
Chapter 9: However: Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes
Postscript
Bibliography
Index