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Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History
Cathy Caruth
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Description for Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History
Paperback. Her afterword serves as a decisive intervention in the ongoing discussions in and about the field. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 258.
In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our century-both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it-we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and reference. Through the notion of trauma, she contends, we come to a new understanding that permits history to arise where immediate understanding may not. Caruth explores the ways in which the texts of psychoanalysis, literature, and literary theory both speak about and speak through the profound story of traumatic experience. Rather than straightforwardly ... Read more
In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our century-both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it-we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and reference. Through the notion of trauma, she contends, we come to a new understanding that permits history to arise where immediate understanding may not. Caruth explores the ways in which the texts of psychoanalysis, literature, and literary theory both speak about and speak through the profound story of traumatic experience. Rather than straightforwardly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421421650
SKU
V9781421421650
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99-50
About Cathy Caruth
Cathy Caruth is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters at Cornell University. She is the author of Trauma: Explorations in Memory; Literature in the Ashes of History; Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud; and Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience.
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