The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)

Abstract
Acknowledgments
Praise for The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: A Narrative History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
	A Series of Double Exposures
	Reading PTSD as Narrative Discourse: From Symptom to Trope
	Bibliography
		Secondary Sources
Chapter 2: Symptomatology and Modes of Emplotment: Paranoid Tropes
	“I was really a robot then”: Paranoia as a State of Body
	“Then there were two separate selves”: Ontological Uncertainty, PTSD, and Paranoia
	Gravity’s Rainbow: Biomediation and the Grotesque Body
	Slaughterhouse-Five: Cosmic Chronotopes of Witnessing
	Catch-22: Uncanniness and Traumatic Witnessing
	Bibliography
		Secondary Sources
Chapter 3: Beyond PTSD’s Postmodern Aesthetics: Modes of Epic Recognition
	Recognition as Elliptical Knowledge and the Makings of the Postmodern Epic
	Teichoscopic Recognition and a New Vision of the Collective Gravity’s Rainbow
	PTSD and the Metafictional Epic of Slaughterhouse-Five
	Recognition and Katabasis in Catch-22
	Bibliography
		Secondary Sources
Chapter 4: Coda: Towards a Collective PTSD Narrative
	Bibliography
		Secondary Sources
Bibliography
	Primary Sources
	Archival Databases
	Secondary Sources
Index