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Literary Aesthetics of Trauma - by Reina Van Der Wiel (Paperback)

Literary Aesthetics of Trauma - by  Reina Van Der Wiel (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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 Modernism's emphasis on impersonality and narrative abstraction has been replaced by the contemporary trauma memoir and an ethical imperative to bear witness.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>'...this is a book of prodigious scholarship with a carefully considered, contemporary message.' - Dianne M. Hunter, Woolf Studies Annual</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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 <em>Women: A Cultural Review</em> and <em>Scenes of Intimacy: Writing, Reading and Theorizing Contemporary Literature</em>, edited by Jennifer Cooke.

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