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The Language of Trauma: War and Technology in Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka
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de John Zilcosky


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From the Napoleonic Wars to the invention of the railway to the shell shock of World War I, writers tried to give voice to the suffering that war and industrial technology had wrought all around them. Yet they, like the doctors who treated these victims, repeatedly ran up against the incapacity of language to describe such anguish; those who suffered trauma, those who tried to heal it, and those who represented it were all unable to find the appropriate words. In The Language of Trauma, John Zilcosky uncovers the reactions of three major central European writers - E.T.A. Hoffmann, Sigmund Freud, and Franz Kafka - to the birth of modern trauma in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.


Zilcosky makes the case that Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka managed to find the language of trauma precisely by not attempting to name the trauma conclusively and instead allowing their writing to mimic the experience itself. Just as the victims' symptoms seemed not to correspond to a physical cause, the writers' words did not connect directly to the objects of the world. While doctors attempted to overcome this indeterminacy, these writers embraced and investigated it; they sought a language that described language's tragic limits and that, in so doing, exemplified the wider literary and philosophical crisis of their time. Zilcosky boldly argues that this linguistic scepticism emerged together with the medical inability to name the experience of trauma. He thereby places trauma where it belongs: at the heart of both medicine's diagnostic predicament and modern literature's most daring experiments.

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  • Título The Language of Trauma: War and Technology in Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka
  • Autor John Zilcosky
  • Encuadernación Tapa blanda
  • Páginas 192
  • Volúmenes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial University of Toronto Press
  • Ilustrado
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781487509422 / 1487509421
  • Peso 0.57 libras (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensiones 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 pulgadas (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.02 cm)
  • Temas
    • Cultural Region: Germany
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Freud, Sigmund, Kafka, Franz
  • Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2020446717
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.933

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