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A key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, trauma theory represents a critical approach that enables new modes of reading and of listening. It is a leading concept of our time, applicable to individuals, cultures, and nations.
This book traces how trauma theory has come to constitute a discrete but influential approach within literary criticism in recent decades. It offers an overview of the genesis and growth of literary trauma theory, recording the evolution of the concept of trauma in relation to literary studies.
The field of trauma studies in literary criticism gained significant attention in 1996 with the publication of Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History and Kali Tal’s Worlds of Hurt Reading the Literatures of Trauma.1 Early...
Mar 15, 2018 · This book traces how trauma theory has come to constitute a discrete but influential approach within literary criticism in recent decades. It offers an overview of the genesis and growth of...
Summary: “Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory showcases some of the leading scholars in literary criticism who take trauma studies in a new direction by broadening the theoretical foundations and future directions of the field through innovative analyses of trauma in literature and culture. Trauma
The evolution of trauma theory in literary criticism might best be understood in terms of the changing psychological definitions of trauma as well as the semiotic, rhetorical, and social concerns that are part of the study of trauma in literature and society.
TRAUMA IN LITERARY STUDIES. Why does literary trauma writing matter? – In answering this question, it is crucial to emphasize that, as Vickroy asserts, “literary and imaginative approaches [to trauma] provide a necessary supplement to historical and psychological studies” (221).
As the science of trauma changes, the literary theory of trauma must change too. And if McNally's work challenges the scientific figures most crucial to the first wave of literary trauma studies, critics in the field must address his theories.
on the psychoanalytic concept of trauma as it inter-sects with literature, literary theory, historiogra-phy, and contemporary culture, it is worth asking why, at this moment, trauma should attract such attention and be-come a pivotal subject connecting so many disciplines.1 Of course,
6 days ago · A body of 20th-century psychological research into the effects upon people of various traumatic events (assault, rape, war, famine, incarceration, etc.), leading to the official recognition in the 1980s of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
