The poetics of post-traumatic stress disorder in postmodern literature / Iro Filippaki.
Filippaki, Iro, author.
2021
PN56.P914
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Title The poetics of post-traumatic stress disorder in postmodern literature / Iro Filippaki.
Author Filippaki, Iro, author.
ISBN 9783030676308 (electronic bk.)
3030676307 (electronic bk.)
9783030676292
3030676293
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67630-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-67630-8 doi
Call Number PN56.P914
Dewey Decimal Classification 813/.54093561
Summary The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature provides an interdisciplinary exploration in early medical trauma treatment and the emergent postmodern canon of the 1960s and 1970s. By identifying key postmodern literary tropes (paranoia, uncanniness, biomediation) as products of an overarching post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) narrative paradigm, this concise study reveals unexplored aspects of the canonical novels at handsuch as the link between individual and collective traumatizationhighlights the presence of epic elements in postmodern narratives, and identifies the influence of emerging psychiatric treatment on the post-WWII novels at hand. Performing a medical humanities reading of Thomas Pynchons Gravitys Rainbow (1973), Kurt Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-5 (1969), and Joseph Hellers Catch-22 (1961), this book introduces a novel way of examining trauma at the intersection of narrative, history, and medicine and recalibrates the importance of postmodern politics of transformation, while making the case for an aesthetics of trauma. By examining the historico-political developments that dictated the formation of PTSD in the wake of the wars in Korea and Vietnam, this book argues that the perception of PTSD symptoms directly influenced aesthetic and literary tropes of the Cold War era.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed November 2, 2021).
Series Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
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1. A Narrative History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
2. Symptomatology and Modes of Emplotment: Paranoid Tropes
3. Beyond PTSDs Postmodern Aesthetics: Modes of Epic Recognition
4. Coda: Towards a Collective PTSD Narrative.

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