Language of Trauma - War and Technology in Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka

Richly nuanced and firmly grounded in literature, biography, and history, The Language of Trauma analyses three major central European writers, revealing how they incorporated and responded to psychological and historical trauma.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Literature, Trauma, and the Sign of Illness
1. Hoffmann at the Battle of Dresden: "The Sandman" and the Napoleonic Wars
2. Freud and World War I: The Uncanny Trauma of Contagion
3. Inexplicable Tears: Trains, Wars, and Kafka’s Aesthetic of Indeterminacy
Conclusion: The Poetics of Trauma: Simulation, Causality, and the Crisis of Insurance
Notes
Index

About the author

John Zilcosky is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.

Product details

• Authors: John Zilcosky
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.2021
• EAN: 9781487509422
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0942-2
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General