Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History - Rilegato

Caruth, Cathy

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ISBN 10: 0801852463 ISBN 13: 9780801852466

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

An intriguing exploration of psychoanalytic, literary, and critical texts as they comment on and exemplify traumatic experience. Caruth purveys the language of trauma, the simultaneous knowing and not knowing of incomprehensible violence, as it presents itself in the work of Freud, Duras, de Man, Kant, Kleist, and Lacan. The variety of sources work to bring forward common themes of reenactment (in order to understand the initial wound), accident, departure, burning, falling, and awakening. This "process" toward understanding trauma results in what the author describes as a "double telling" wherein the crisis of death and the crisis of life are entwined and result in a historical witnessing. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Recensione:

"Unclaimed Experience is a splendid work, written with admirable clarity, power, and economy. The book has importance for a number of different fields: for psychoanalysis, for trauma theory or theory of 'post-traumatic stress disorder,' for literary study, for literary theory for cultural and historical studies, and for ethical theory. Each chapter is a classic essay on its topic." -- J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine

L'autore:

Cathy Caruth is associate professor of comparative literature and English and director of the Program in Comparative Literature at Emory University.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0801852463
• ISBN 13: 9780801852466
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 154