Speaking the Unspeakable: Engaging Nefas in Lucan and Rwanda 1994
Lucan’s Bellum Civile can be read as an epic that functions in the mode of trauma literature, i.e. a work that explicitly seeks to represent a horror that defies its very representation. Toward this end, this article applies the lens of modern trauma studies to a comparative reading of Lucan set alo...
Main Author: | Mark Allen Thorne |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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Universität Potsdam
2017-04-01
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Series: | thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date |
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Online Access: | https://www.thersites-journal.de/index.php/thr/article/view/41 |
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