The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature - Iro Filippaki

The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature

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Buch | Softcover
XIV, 106 Seiten
2022 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-67632-2 (ISBN)
58,84 inkl. MwSt

The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature provides an interdisciplinary exploration in early medical trauma treatment and the emergent postmodern canon of the 1960s and 1970s. By identifying key postmodern literary tropes (paranoia, uncanniness, biomediation) as products of an overarching post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) narrative paradigm, this concise study reveals unexplored aspects of the canonical novels at hand-such as the link between individual and collective traumatization-highlights the presence of epic elements in postmodern narratives, and identifies the influence of emerging psychiatric treatment on the post-WWII novels at hand. Performing a medical humanities reading of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-5 (1969), and Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961), this book introduces a novel way of examining trauma at the intersection of narrative, history, and medicine and recalibrates the importance of postmodern politics of transformation, while making the case for an aesthetics of trauma. By examining the historico-political developments that dictated the formation of PTSD in the wake of the wars in Korea and Vietnam, this book argues that the perception of PTSD symptoms directly influenced aesthetic and literary tropes of the Cold War era.

lt;p> Iro Filippaki is an independent researcher working on trauma, affect studies, narratology, medicine, and war. She is the general editor of Tendon, a medical humanities creative journal, and is also on the editorial board of De Gryuter's Video Games and Humanities series. She has taught English Literature, Comparative Literature, and Critical Writing at the University of Glasgow, and medical humanities courses at Johns Hopkins University where she was a postdoctoral fellow until July 2020. She currently resides in and writes from Athens, Greece.


1. A Narrative History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.- 2. Symptomatology and Modes of Emplotment: Paranoid Tropes.- 3. Beyond PTSD's Postmodern Aesthetics: Modes of Epic Recognition.- 4. Coda: Towards a Collective PTSD Narrative.


Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Zusatzinfo XIV, 106 p. 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 166 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte Literature and Human Rights • Memory Studies • postmodern literature • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Post-war Literature • post-wwii • Psychological disorders • ptsd symptoms • Trauma Studies
ISBN-10 3-030-67632-3 / 3030676323
ISBN-13 978-3-030-67632-2 / 9783030676322
Zustand Neuware
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