WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions By identifying key postmodern literary tropes as products of an overarching PTSD narrative paradigm, this accessible and concise study: identifies unexplored aspects of the canonical novels at hand, such as the link between individual and collective traumatization introduces a novel way of examining trauma at the intersection of narrative, history, and medicine that will be of interest to literary scholars, students, and medical practitioners within narrative medicine alike and recalibrates the importance of postmodern politics of transformation, while making the case for an aesthetics of trauma.Contributor(s): Heller, Joseph (Author), Buckley, Christopher (Introduction by) For the first time since the portrayal of PTSD as a product of narrative discourses, The Poetics of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature performs an inverse exploration. The Poetics of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature revisits the great American post-WWII, postmodern literary texts, namely Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-5 (1969), and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961), to fuse high literary theory and criticism with the conception of PTSD symptomatology-and the historico-political developments that dictated the formation of PTSD symptoms and their corresponding literary tropes. 'What the hell has Catch-22 got to do with it?' 'Catch-22,' Doc Daneeka answered patiently, when Hungry Joe had flown Yossarian back to Pianosa, 'says you've always got to do what your commanding officer tells you to.' 'But Twenty-seventh Air Force says I can go home with forty missions.' 'But they don't say you have to go home. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.' There was only one catch and that was Catch-22…. 'Sure there's a catch,' Doc Daneeka replied. Heller's principle emphasis is on the internal struggle with conflicting values and the characters' evolution. Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post-World War II satirists. The title of this work entered the English lexicon to refer to absurd, no-win choices, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is impossibility, and regardless of choice, the same negative outcome is a certainty.

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