Reading Modernist Fiction as War Testimony: The Case of D.H. Lawrence’s “Nightmare”
Trauma theory has offered literary studies a panacea to the extremes of indeterminacy and inflexibility that emerged in Post-structuralist and New Historicist readings. The practice of deconstruction at turns laid bare the infinite openness of a text, and the fixed “ideology” within it. However, in...
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| Опубликовано в: : | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence, |
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| Формат: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Язык: | Anglais |
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Études Lawrenciennes
2014
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| Online-ссылка: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Итог: | Trauma theory has offered literary studies a panacea to the extremes of indeterminacy and inflexibility that emerged in Post-structuralist and New Historicist readings. The practice of deconstruction at turns laid bare the infinite openness of a text, and the fixed “ideology” within it. However, instead of the reader instigating the death of the author as moral and cultural authority, for trauma theory he bears witness to the author as a survivor of history. Reading literature as testimony i... |
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