Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson by Reina Va

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Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson investigates a fundamental shift, from the 1920s to the present day, in the way that trauma is aesthetically expressed. Modernism's emphasis on impersonality and narrative abstraction has been replaced by the contemporary trauma memoir and an ethical imperative to bear witness.

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Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson investigates a fundamental shift, from the 1920s to the present day, in the way that trauma is aesthetically expressed. Modernism's emphasis on impersonality and narrative abstraction has been replaced by the contemporary trauma memoir and an ethical imperative to bear witness.

Author Biography

Reina van der Wiel is Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and has also taught English Literature at Birkbeck and Middlesex University. She has published work in Women: A Cultural Review and Scenes of Intimacy: Writing, Reading and Theorizing Contemporary Literature, edited by Jennifer Cooke.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, Literary Form 2. Writing the Body: Trauma, Woolf, Winterson 3. Symbolization, Thinking and Working-Through: British Object Relations Theory 4. 'The Most Difficult Abstract Piece of Writing': 'Time Passes' as Container 5. 'Ideas of Feeling': Symbolic Transformation in Modernist Formalist Aesthetics 6. Woolf's Embodied Cognitive Aesthetics: The Waves 7. From Form to Feeling: Trauma and Affective Excess in Art and Lies 8. 'The Story of My Life': Winterson's Adoption, Art and Autobiography 9. Coda Notes References Index

Review

'...this is a book of prodigious scholarship with a carefully considered, contemporary message.' - Dianne M. Hunter, Woolf Studies Annual

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Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson investigates a fundamental shift, from the 1920s to the present day, in the way that trauma is culturally perceived and aesthetically expressed. Modernism's emphasis on impersonality and narrative abstraction has been replaced by the contemporary trauma memoir and an ethical imperative to bear witness. This book diverges from the deconstructive trend in academic trauma studies that prioritizes a model of narrative rupture, whereby literary form replicates traumatic symptoms. Instead, it presents an object relations theory model, which emphasizes the importance of narrative 'containment' and 'working-through' of traumatic emotion by achieving at least some critical distance. From this perspective, it analyses modernism's formalist aesthetics, particularly as displayed in two of Woolf's most formally abstract novels. It contrasts this approach with Winterson's 'new baroque' aesthetics and the increasingly 'authentic' reappearance of the traumatic adoption story in her work.

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'...this is a book of prodigious scholarship with a carefully considered, contemporary message.' - Dianne M. Hunter, Woolf Studies Annual

Details ISBN1137311002 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Year 2014 ISBN-10 1137311002 ISBN-13 9781137311009 Format Hardcover Short Title LITERARY AESTHETICS OF TRAUMA Language English Media Book Publication Date 2014-04-08 Edition Description 2014 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 255 AU Release Date 2014-04-08 NZ Release Date 2014-04-08 UK Release Date 2014-04-08 Illustrations VI, 255 p. Author Reina Van der Wiel Alternative 9781349456826 DEWEY 823.91209 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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