TY - BOOK AU - Gildersleeve,Jessica TI - Elizabeth Bowen and the writing of trauma: the ethics of survival T2 - Costerus, SN - 9789401210478 AV - PR6003.O6757 Z64 2014 U1 - 823/.912 23 CY - Amsterdam, New York, NY PB - Rodopi. KW - Bowen, Elizabeth, KW - Women and literature KW - Ireland KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Psychic trauma in literature KW - fast KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-232) and index; Preliminary Material -- “WE MUST LIVE HOW WE CAN” -- WOUND: THE HOTEL AND TO THE NORTH -- SUPPLEMENT: THE LAST SEPTEMBER -- REMAINS: THE HOUSE IN PARIS AND FRIENDS AND RELATIONS -- DEATH SLEEP: THE DEATH OF THE HEART -- SAFE: WARTIME SHORT FICTION -- UNKNOWN: THE HEAT OF THE DAY -- POST: A WORLD OF LOVE -- CRYPT: THE LITTLE GIRLS -- HOWEVER: EVA TROUT, OR CHANGING SCENES -- POSTSCRIPT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma analyses the treatment of memory and the past in Bowen’s writing through the lens of trauma theory. It draws on the theories of Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Sigmund Freud, and Cathy Caruth, to propose that Bowen’s work is best understood through the psychological, narratological, and linguistic effects of trauma in her fiction. Bowen’s writing complicates existing deconstructive and psychoanalytic models of trauma and literature, and testifies to the responsibility of survival and the ethics of bearing witness UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401210478 ER -