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1 online resource (x, 240 pages) : illustrations |
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The genealogy of a concept -- Trauma and modernity -- law of 'nervous shock' -- Trauma in psychology 1870-1914 -- Trauma in the war ecology: shell shock -- Trauma and the politics of identity: Vietnam, Holocaust and abuse survivors -- Trauma in narrative fiction -- Beloved: a paradigmatic trauma fiction -- Stephen King's trauma gothic -- Mainstream fiction and traumatic anachrony -- W.G. Sebald: the last trawnatophile? -- My so-called life: the memoir boom -- Five elements towards the trauma memoir -- Memoir and the judicious truth -- Generating autofictions: Philip Roth, Herve Guibert, Kathryn Harrison --intrusive image: photography and trauma -- The fine art of trauma -- Aftermath aesthetics: Christian Boltanski, Gerhard Richter, Tracey Moffatt -- Beautiful books of atrocity: Sebastiao Salgado, Giles Peress, Luc Delahaye -- Flashbacks, mosaics and loops: Trauma and narrative cinema -- genealogy of the traumatic flashback -- Three trauma auteurs: Alain Resnais, Atom Egoyan, David Lynch -- Trauma and 'post-classical' film since 1990 |
| Summary |
Roger Luckhurst introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of trauma have become a major element in contemporary Western conceptions of the self |
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Literature |
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Critical studies |
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Cinema films |
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Psychology |
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Trauma |
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Art |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Arts, Modern -- Psychological aspects
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Psychic trauma in art.
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Psychic trauma -- Social aspects
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Medicine in Literature -- history
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Medicine in the Arts -- history
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Stress Disorders, Traumatic
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ART -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
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Arts, Modern -- Psychological aspects
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Psychic trauma in art
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Psychic trauma -- Social aspects
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Künste
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Literatur
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Psychisches Trauma
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Kultur
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Psychisches Trauma Motiv
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Kunst
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Psykiska trauman -- kulturella aspekter.
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20.21 iconographic themes.
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17.93 themes and motives in literature.
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Traumas (psychology)
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Motifs (art)
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Literary themes.
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Arts, Modern -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychic trauma in art.
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Psychic trauma -- Social aspects.
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136015021 |
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1136015027 |
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9780203607305 |
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0203607309 |
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