The language of trauma : war and technology in Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka / John Zilcosky
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| Sprache: | English German |
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Toronto [u.a.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2021
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: Literature, Trauma, and the Sign of Illness
- Hoffmann at the Battle of Dresden: "The Sandman" and the Napoleonic Wars
- Freud and World War I: The Uncanny Trauma of Contagion
- Inexplicable Tears: Trains, Wars, and Kafka's Aesthetic of Indeterminacy
- Conclusion: The Poetics of Trauma: Simulation, Causality, and the Crisis of Insurance