Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Wood Anderson is an associate lecturer in the department of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Klappentext In Readings of Trauma! Madness! and the Body! Anderson explores how Modernist fiction narratives by Hemingway! the Fitzgeralds! and H.D. represent trauma! specifically addressing the conflict between speaking about and repressing traumatic memories! while also considering how authors' understandings of gender influence their depictions. Zusammenfassung In Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body, Anderson explores how Modernist fiction narratives by Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and H.D. represent trauma, specifically addressing the conflict between speaking about and repressing traumatic memories, while also considering how authors' understandings of gender influence their depictions. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I Trauma Theory Readings of Resistance in Hemingway's Trauma Fiction Domestic Trauma in H.D.'s HERmione PART II Madness in Modern Literature Readings of Gender and Madness in Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees and The Garden of Eden Infidelity and Madness in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night Production of the Body and Omission of Madness in Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz Creating a Language of Rebellion Madness in H.D.'s HERmione Conclusion

List of contents

PART I Trauma Theory Readings of Resistance in Hemingway's Trauma Fiction Domestic Trauma in H.D.'s HERmione PART II Madness in Modern Literature Readings of Gender and Madness in Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees and The Garden of Eden Infidelity and Madness in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night Production of the Body and Omission of Madness in Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz Creating a Language of Rebellion Madness in H.D.'s HERmione Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: S Anderson, S. Anderson, Sarah Anderson, Sarah Wood Anderson, Anderson Sarah
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2012
• EAN: 9781137030054
• ISBN: 978-1-137-03005-4
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century; American Literature Readings i; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century; American Literature Readings i
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; B, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, America—Literatures, North American Literature