Granofsky The Trauma Novel

Contemporary Symbolic Depictions of Collective Disaster
299. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4539-1001-6
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 55, 0 Seiten

Reihe: American University Studies

This study attempts to make sense of a group of novels that deal in a symbolic way with contemporary forms of collective disaster (the prospect of nuclear war, the Holocaust, environmental destruction). It shows similarities among British, American, Canadian and other novels never before grouped together and argues that they constitute a distinct sub-genre of fiction: the trauma novel. In so doing, the book sets forth an original theory about how literary symbolism functions as part of a cultural response to collective trauma.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Granofsky, Ronald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Granofsky, Ronald
Ronald Granofsky has taught at several universities in Denmark and is currently Associate Professor of English at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. He is the author of numerous articles on modern and contemporary fiction. He has a M.A. from the University of Kent at Canterbury and a Ph.D. from Queen's University at Kingston, Canada.

The Author: Ronald Granofsky has taught at several universities in Denmark and is currently Associate Professor of English at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. He is the author of numerous articles on modern and contemporary fiction. He has a M.A. from the University of Kent at Canterbury and a Ph.D. from Queen's University at Kingston, Canada.