Writing trauma: aesthetic experience, projection and the mechanics of representation
Abstract Edgar Allan Poe’s tales represent one of the most finely-wrought conjurings up of trauma-generated fears in literature. Like the writings of Melanie Klein, Poe’s fiction offers a way of getting inside dread, of writing it, re-creating it, and of transforming it into a beautiful thing. In Kl...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01966-7 |