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Project

An Introductory Guide to the Concept of Trauma for Routledge’s New Critical Idiom Series
Code
01SS0412
Duration
01 December 2012 → 31 March 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
  • Social sciences
    • Biological and physiological psychology
    • General psychology
    • Other psychology and cognitive sciences
Keywords
literary criticism trauma literary theory
 
Project description
 

The book will provide an account of the history of the concept of trauma, explore how trauma functions in literary and cultural studies, identify and explain important issues and tensions in the study of trauma as a cultural phenomenon, and outline and assess recent critiques and revisions of cultural trauma research.