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| Title: | Trauma & Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift (HB @ PB Price)
: No Short-Cuts to Salvation |
| Author: | Stef Craps |
| ISBN: | 1845192311 : 9781845192310 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 152x229mm |
| Pages: | 230 |
| Weight: | .498 Kg. |
| Published: | Sussex Academic Press - June 2005 |
| List Price: | 19.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | LITERATURE: HISTORY & CRITICISM |
Shows how the novels elaborate an ethics of alterity by means of a detailed study of one of Swift's most persistent and fascinating -- yet all too often ignored -- concerns: the traumatic experience of reality. Swift's texts evoke the cultural pathologies of a nation (post-war Britain) and an era (modernity) through the narratives of individual characters who are struggling to come to terms with a traumatic personal and collective past. By providing a wide-ranging and in-depth analysis of Swift's novels against the background of the 'ethical turn' in literary studies and the emergence of trauma theory, this book extends and enriches our understanding of what is arguably one of the most significant literary oeuvres of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
"...a detailed, carefully balanced and well-informed study of this major contemporary writer..." -- Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London, and Editor, Routledge Critical Thinkers. "...not only offers brilliant analyses of Swift's novels, it also makes a significant impact on trauma studies..." -- Ernst van Alphen, University of Leiden / University of California, Berkeley.
