Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature and Film - Couverture souple

Binion, Rudolph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1855757435 ISBN 13 : 9781855757431

Editeur : Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film explores an intriguing facet of human behavior never yet examined in its own right - an individual or a group may contrive, unawares, to repeat a half-forgotten traumatic experience in disguise. Such reliving has shaped major careers and large-scale events throughout history. Insight into it is therefore vital for understanding historic causation past and present. Traumatic Reliving has also proliferated in literature since antiquity and lately in film as well, indicating its tacit acceptance as a piece of life by the reading and movie-going public. This book examines the evidence of history, literature, and film on how this irrational behavioral mechanism works.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rudolph Binion was educated at Columbia University and the University of Paris. He served two years in the United States Army and worked three years in demographic statistics at Unesco (Paris) before taking a doctorate in History at Columbia in 1958. In 1967 he moved to Brandeis University, where he has remained ever since except for a visiting professorship at the College de France (Paris) in 1980. He has published ten books and some fifty scholarly articles in European and American political, social, and demographic history, biography, art, and literature including a monumental psychobiography of the prodigious Russo- German woman of letters Lou Andreas-Salome, 'Frau Lou' in 1968.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1855757435
• ISBN 13: 9781855757431
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 164
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