
Terrorizing Images
Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature
De Gruyter (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 7. September 2020
Book
Hardback
VI, 204 pages
978-3-11-069290-7 (ISBN)
Description
It is broadly accepted that "terrorizing" images are often instrumentalized in periods of conflict to serve political interests. This volume proposes that paying attention to how images of trauma and conflict are described in literary texts, i.e. to the rhetorical practice known as "ekphrasis", is crucial to our understanding of how such images work. The volume's contributors discuss verbal images of trauma and terror in literary texts both from a contemporary perspective and as historical artefacts in order to illuminate the many different functions of ekphrasis in literature. The articles in this volume reflect the vast developments in the field of trauma studies since the 1990s, a field that has recently broadened to include genres beyond the memoir and testimony and that lends itself well to new postcolonial, feminist, and multimedia approaches. By expanding the scholarly understanding of how images of trauma are described, interpreted, and acted out in literary texts, this collected volume makes a significant contribution to both trauma and memory studies, as well as more broadly to cultural studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
425 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-069290-7 (9783110692907)
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Charles Ivan Armstrong | Unni Langas
Terrorizing Images
Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature
E-Book
09/2020
1st Edition
De Gruyter
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Charles Ivan Armstrong | Unni Langas
Terrorizing Images
Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature
E-Book
09/2020
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€0.00
Available for download
Persons
Charles I. Armstrong
, University of Agder, Norway;
Unni LangÄs
, University of Agder, Norway.