Download or read book Literary Aesthetics of Trauma written by Reina Van der Wiel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson investigates a fundamental shift, from the 1920s to the present day, in the way that trauma is aesthetically expressed. Modernism's emphasis on impersonality and narrative abstraction has been replaced by the contemporary trauma memoir and an ethical imperative to bear witness.