Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift

• Utgivningsdatum: 2005-06-01
• Mått: 229 x 152 x undefined mm
• Vikt: 498 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 230
• Förlag: Liverpool University Press
• ISBN: 9781845190040

• Litteraturvetenskap

Stef Craps is a Doctoral Assistant in the English Department at the University of Ghent, Belgium, and from 1999 to 2003 was a Research Assistant of the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research. He is the author of many articles on twentieth-century English literature in journals and collected works.

"This excellent book is a detailed, carefully balanced and well-informed study of this major contemporary writer. Most impressively, it has a strong grasp of both the complex currents of Swift's fiction and of current debates in literary studies and theory over issues of trauma and ethics. Indeed, Stef Craps's luminous and detailed study, while more than this, could be seen as a case study for the effectiveness of these ideas for understanding a major contemporary writer. Certainly, it will shape how Swift's writing is understood." -- Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London, and Editor, Routledge Critical Thinkers."This book not only offers brilliant analyses of Swift's novels, it also makes a significant impact on trauma studies. Craps argues that traumatic histories are the central themes in Swift's literary oeuvre. But more importantly, he demonstrates that Swift's own medium - storytelling - is crucial in working through trauma." -- Ernst van Alphen, University of Leiden / University of California, Berkeley, and author of Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory.

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