Sin Sick : : Moral Injury in War and Literature / / Joshua Pederson.

In Sin Sick, Joshua Pederson draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary theory of moral injury that addresses fictional representations of the mental anguish of those who have injured or killed others. Pederson's work fo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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出版年:2021
語言:English
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction: Why We Need Moral Injury Now --
1 Moral Injury: A Clinical Portrait --
2 “My Sin Is Ever before Me”: Moral Injury and Literary Style --
3 Moral Injury and Moral Repair in Crime and Punishment --
4 “The Vices of Our Whole Generation”: Collective Moral Injury in The Fall --
5 “Signature Wound”: Moral Injury in Iraq War Literature --
Coda: “Witnessing” to Moral Injury? --
Works Cited --
Index
總結:In Sin Sick, Joshua Pederson draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary theory of moral injury that addresses fictional representations of the mental anguish of those who have injured or killed others. Pederson's work foregrounds the concept of moral injury, a recent psychological concept distinct from trauma that is used to describe the psychic wounds suffered by those who breach their own deeply held ethical principles.Complementing writings on trauma theory that posit the textual manifestation of trauma as absence, Sin Sick draws argues that moral injury appears in literature in a variety of forms of excess. Pederson closely reads works by Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment), Camus (The Fall), and veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (Brian Turner's Here, Bullet; Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds; Phil Klay's Redeployment; and Roy Scranton's War Porn), contending that recognizing and understanding the suffering of perpetrators, without condoning their crimes, enriches the experience of reading—and of being human.
格式:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781501755897
9783110739084
9783110754001
9783110753776
9783110754155
9783110753929
DOI:10.1515/9781501755897?locatt=mode:legacy
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Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Joshua Pederson.