Cathy Caruth

Gebundenes Buch

Literature in the Ashes of History

Beschreibung

These stories of trauma cannot be limited to the catastrophes they name, and the theory of catastrophic history may ultimately be written in a language that already lingers in a time that comes to us from the other side of the disaster.

Autor

Cathy Caruth is a leading figure in psychoanalytically informed literary theory and humanistic approaches to trauma. She is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters at Cornell University, with appointments in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature. Her books include Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud; Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History; and Trauma: Explorations in Memory, all published by Johns Hopkins.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781421411545
• ISBN-10: 1421411547
• Artikelnr.: 38409048