Reading trauma narratives /
Vickroy, Laurie, 1954-
Reading trauma narratives / Laurie Vickroy. - xv, 198 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Re-creating the split self in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace -- Fear and commodification in the shaping of America in Toni Morrison's Paradise and A Mercy -- Obsessions and possessions in William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom! -- The traumas of love and death in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body -- Trauma, gender, and commodification in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Invisible Monsters.
9780813937373 (cloth : acidfree paper) 9780813937380 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
2015016448
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Psychic trauma in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Psychology in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Canadian fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
PS374.P69 / V53 2015
813/.509353
Reading trauma narratives / Laurie Vickroy. - xv, 198 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Re-creating the split self in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace -- Fear and commodification in the shaping of America in Toni Morrison's Paradise and A Mercy -- Obsessions and possessions in William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom! -- The traumas of love and death in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body -- Trauma, gender, and commodification in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Invisible Monsters.
9780813937373 (cloth : acidfree paper) 9780813937380 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
2015016448
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Psychic trauma in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Psychology in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Canadian fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
PS374.P69 / V53 2015
813/.509353