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Trauma, postmodernism, and the aftermath of World War II

Trauma, postmodernism, and the aftermath of World War II

Crosthwaite, Paul 1980-

Hardback, Book. English.
Published Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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    Statement of responsibility: Paul Crosthwaite
    ISBN: 0230202950, 9780230202955
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Note: Hbk.
    Physical Description: vii, 222 p. 23cm
    Subject: War and literature Great Britain History 20th century; American fiction 20th century History and criticism; English fiction 20th century History and criticism; World War, 1939-1945 Psychological aspects; Postmodernism (Literature) Great Britain; War and literature United States History 20th century; Psychic trauma in literature; Postmodernism (Literature) United States; War in literature; World War, 1939-1945 Literature and the war

    Contents

    1. War, trauma, postmodernism
    2. Gravity's rainbow and traumatic models of history
    3. "A secret code of pain and memory": traumatic repetition in the fiction of J.G. Ballard
    4. Total war and the English stream-of-consciousness novel: from Mrs Dalloway to Mother London
    5. Their fathers' war: negotiating the legacy of World War II in Prisoner's dilemma and Atonement.