Terrorizing Images: Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature: 16 (Culture & Conflict, 16) - Tapa dura

Libro 15 de 20: Culture & Conflict
 
9783110692907: Terrorizing Images: Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature: 16 (Culture & Conflict, 16)
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ISBN 10: 3110692902 ISBN 13: 9783110692907
Editorial: De Gruyter, 2020

Sinopsis

It is broadly accepted that "terrorizing" images are often instrumentalized in periods of conflict to serve political interests. This volume proposes that paying attention to how images of trauma and conflict are described in literary texts, i.e. to the rhetorical practice known as "ekphrasis", is crucial to our understanding of how such images work. The volume's contributors discuss verbal images of trauma and terror in literary texts both from a contemporary perspective and as historical artefacts in order to illuminate the many different functions of ekphrasis in literature. The articles in this volume reflect the vast developments in the field of trauma studies since the 1990s, a field that has recently broadened to include genres beyond the memoir and testimony and that lends itself well to new postcolonial, feminist, and multimedia approaches. By expanding the scholarly understanding of how images of trauma are described, interpreted, and acted out in literary texts, this collected volume makes a significant contribution to both trauma and memory studies, as well as more broadly to cultural studies.

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Charles I. Armstrong, University of Agder, Norway; Unni Langås, University of Agder, Norway.

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Editorial
De Gruyter
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
3110692902
ISBN 13 
9783110692907
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
212
Editor
Armstrong Charles Ivan
Contacto del fabricante
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
info@degruyter.com

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