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Literary Aesthetics of Trauma

Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson

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  1. Reina C. Wiel

    1. Birkbeck, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, Literary Form

    • Reina C. van der Wiel
    Pages 1-22

  3. Writing the Body: Trauma, Woolf, Winterson

    • Reina C. van der Wiel
    Pages 23-47

  4. Symbolization, Thinking and Working-Through: British Object Relations Theory

    • Reina C. van der Wiel
    Pages 48-69

  5. ‘The Most Difficult Abstract Piece of Writing’: ‘Time Passes’ as Container

    • Reina C. van der Wiel
    Pages 70-105

  6. ‘Ideas of Feeling’: Symbolic Transformation in Modernist Formalist Aesthetics

    • Reina C. van der Wiel
    Pages 106-125

  7. Woolf’s Embodied Cognitive Aesthetics: The Waves

    • Reina C. van der Wiel
    Pages 126-154

  8. From Form to Feeling: Trauma and Affective Excess in Art & Lies

    • Reina C. van der Wiel
    Pages 155-175

  9. ‘The Story of My Life’: Winterson’s Adoption, Art and Autobiography

    • Reina C. van der Wiel
    Pages 176-213

  10. Coda

    • Reina C. van der Wiel
    Pages 214-217

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 218-255
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Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson investigates a fundamental shift, from the 1920s to the present day, in the way that trauma is aesthetically expressed. Modernism's emphasis on impersonality and narrative abstraction has been replaced by the contemporary trauma memoir and an ethical imperative to bear witness.

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'...this is a book of prodigious scholarship with a carefully considered, contemporary message.' - Dianne M. Hunter, Woolf Studies Annual

Authors and Affiliations

  • Birkbeck, University of London, UK

    Reina C. Wiel

About the author

Reina van der Wiel is Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and has also taught English Literature at Birkbeck and Middlesex University. She has published work in Women: A Cultural Review and Scenes of Intimacy: Writing, Reading and Theorizing Contemporary Literature, edited by Jennifer Cooke.

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