Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination
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Aesthetic Sublimation
American Psychiatric Association
Author_Wyatt Bonikowski
British modernism
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Chris Baldry
Clarissa Dalloway
Dead Man
Draw Back
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Ford Madox Ford's Parade
Ford Madox Ford’s Parade
Ford's Portrayal
Ford’s Portrayal
Freud death drive analysis in fiction
gender and trauma
Good Life
Home Town
Jenny's Narrative
narrative resistance theory
Parade's End
postwar literature studies
psychoanalytic trauma
Septimus's Death
Septimus's Suicide
Shell Blast
Shell Shock
Sir Will-I-am
Soldier's Return
Soldier's Silence
Soll Ich Werden
Valentine Wannop
Valentine's Face
War Neuroses
war neurosis
Woolf's Narrative
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138273108
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Looking closely at both case histories of shell shock and Modernist novels by Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, Wyatt Bonikowski shows how the figure of the shell-shocked soldier and the symptoms of war trauma were transformed by the literary imagination. Situating his study with respect to Freud’s concept of the death drive, Bonikowski reads the repetitive symptoms of shell-shocked soldiers as a resistance to representation and narrative. In making this resistance part of their narratives, Ford, West, and Woolf broaden our understanding of the traumatic effects of war, exploring the possibility of a connection between the trauma of war and the trauma of sexuality. Parade’s End, The Return of the Soldier, and Mrs. Dalloway are all structured around the relationship between the soldier who returns from war and the women who receive him, but these novels offer no prospect for the healing effects of the union between men and women. Instead, the novels underscore the divisions within the home and the self, drawing on the traumatic effects of shell shock to explore the link between the public events of history and the intimate traumas of the relations between self and other.
Wyatt Bonikowski is Assistant Professor of English at Suffolk University, USA.
