Terrorizing Images : Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Armstrong, Charles Ivan.
Other Authors: Langas, Unni.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Culture and Conflict Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Encounters between Trauma and Ekphrasis, Words and Images
  • De te fabula narratur! Violence and Representation in Peter Weiss's The Aesthetics of Resistance
  • What Does It Mean To Be Human? Speculative Ekphrasis and Anthropocene Trauma in Don DeLillo's Zero K
  • The Ordinariness of Trauma: Reconstructing Intertextuality as an Aesthetics of Trauma
  • Terrorizing Images and Traumatic Anticipation in Michael Cunningham's The Hours
  • Phantomogenic Ekphrasis: Traumatizing Images in Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days and Don DeLillo's Falling Man
  • Reenacting Rape in Édouard Louis's History of Violence
  • Empathic Vision? War Photography, Ekphrasis, and Memory in Bosnian War Literature
  • Remedial Intermediality: Ekphrasis in Sinéad Morrissey's "The Doctors"
  • Traumatizing Images of Belfast in Mary Costello's Novel Titanic Town
  • Ekphrasis and the Holocaust: Traumatic Images in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones
  • White Oblivion: Antarctica and the Suspension of Trauma
  • Contributors
  • Index.