Trauma and Shame affect theories concern themselves with
an investigation into individual trauma and the psychological, as well as,
physiological affects that often malignantly accompany them. Their
theoretical foci concerns how trauma and shame are represented in various
texts. Trauma theory accents the marginalized proto-experience of the
individual and her need to have it conceptualized through language
(grammar) into a socially interdependent narrative, while Shame psychology
examines the numerous behavioral affects of shame (a physiological
narrative if you will) which often malignantly emanate into efflorescence
after a particular type of trauma. Both methodologies attend to the
"metonymic" or associational elements of a character (or
narrator's) behavior, investigating tropes indicative of narratives,
regardless of whether they are most visible in a psychological (as
memory) or physiological capacity. That is, when such methodologies are
used to read Modernist narratives their analysis concerns itself with the
work's technical and psychological forms: disfigured narrative elucidates
disfigured consciousness.
This panel solicits papers dealing with the Modern British Novel
and Trauma or Shame. Those papers dealing with Virginia Woolf, Joseph
Conrad, Henry James and D. H. Lawrence are especially welcome. Abstracts
should be no more than 600 words.
Please send email submissions to either of the two following addresses:
martinwa@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
or
or mail paper submissions to
William Alejandro Martin, Department of English CNH 320.
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
L8S 4L9.
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William Alejandro Martin
Doctoral Candidate, Department of English
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Ph. - (905) - 522 -0445.
Email: martinwa@mcmaster.ca
"I fear we still have God because we still believe in grammar"
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "Reason in Philosophy." _Twilight of the
Idols_.
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