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

by John Zilcosky

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487509391
• ISBN13: 9781487509392
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"