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trauma theory: a standalone construct

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Literary theory

an approach reading literature for the belated, unassimilated return of traumatic experience that resists direct representation.

In literary theory, trauma theory refers to an approach reading literature for the belated, unassimilated return of traumatic experience that resists direct representation. This meaning comes from Caruth (1996) in Unclaimed experience.[1]

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experience4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs reading2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs representation7 fields · 9 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Caruth, C. (1996). Unclaimed experience. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801852466

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