Trauma, Transcendence, and Trust - Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot Thinking Loss

Informationen zum Autor THOMAS J. BRENNAN Assistant Professor of English at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, USA. Klappentext Thomas Brennan finds roots of the 'sensibility of trauma' by returning to the work of Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot. By reading these poets of mourning through the framework of trauma, Brennan reflects on our traumatized moment and weighs two potential responses - the fantasy of transcendence and the ethic of trust. Zusammenfassung Thomas Brennan finds roots of the 'sensibility of trauma' by returning to the work of Wordsworth! Tennyson! and Eliot. By reading these poets of mourning through the framework of trauma! Brennan reflects on our traumatized moment and weighs two potential responses - the fantasy of transcendence and the ethic of trust. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Traumatized Trust Gazes of Trauma, Spots of Trust: Wordsworth's Memorials in The Prelude 'Wound' in the 'Living Soul': Tennyson's In Memoriam Castrated Referentiality: Eliot's The Waste Land Epilogue: 'The Tone We Trusted Most': James Merrill's The Book of Ephraim

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Introduction: Traumatized Trust Gazes of Trauma, Spots of Trust: Wordsworth's Memorials in The Prelude 'Wound' in the 'Living Soul': Tennyson's In Memoriam Castrated Referentiality: Eliot's The Waste Land Epilogue: 'The Tone We Trusted Most': James Merrill's The Book of Ephraim

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• Authors: T Brennan, T. Brennan, Thomas Brennan, Thomas J. Brennan, BRENNAN THOMAS
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.2011
• EAN: 9780230104969
• ISBN: 978-0-230-10496-9
• No. of pages: 219
• Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters; Nineteenth-Century Major Lives; Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters; Nineteenth-Century Major Lives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; B, Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary theory, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, George Eliot;Tennyson;William Wordsworth;Wordsworth