Terrorizing Images: Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature 9783110693959, 9783110692907

It is broadly accepted that “terrorizing” images are often instrumentalized in periods of conflict to serve political in

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Terrorizing Images: Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature
9783110693959, 9783110692907

It is broadly accepted that “terrorizing” images are often instrumentalized in periods of conflict to serve political in

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Trauma in Contemporary Literature analyzes contemporary narrative texts in English in the light of trauma theory, includ

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An expanded and revised edition of the first social work text to focus specifically on trauma, this comprehensive anthol

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The last two centuries of Irish history have seen great traumas that continue to affect Irish society. Through construct

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Examines contemporary online soldier poetry and graphic novel writing in the first book-length study of its kind Offers

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The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China were traumatic experiences for Chinese intellectuals,

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This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentati

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Winner of the 2015 Irish Association for American Studies Peggy O'Brien Book Prize Examines the representation of t

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Considers the nature and status of contemporary cinema by way of a series of technological reflections on its past Argue

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Modern Korean fiction is to a large extent a literature of witness to the historic upheavals of twentieth-century Korea.

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