Literary Aesthetics of Trauma

1. Introduction: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, Literary Form
Reina C. Wiel

2. Writing the Body: Trauma, Woolf, Winterson
Reina C. Wiel

3. Symbolization, Thinking and Working-Through: British Object Relations Theory
Reina C. Wiel

4. ‘The Most Difficult Abstract Piece of Writing’: ‘Time Passes’ as Container
Reina C. Wiel

5. ‘Ideas of Feeling’: Symbolic Transformation in Modernist Formalist Aesthetics
Reina C. Wiel

6. Woolf’s Embodied Cognitive Aesthetics: The Waves
Reina C. Wiel

7. From Form to Feeling: Trauma and Affective Excess in Art & Lies
Reina C. Wiel

8. ‘The Story of My Life’: Winterson’s Adoption, Art and Autobiography
Reina C. Wiel

9. Coda
Reina C. Wiel

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary History, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Fiction, Aesthetics