Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181) and index.
Contents:
Breaking the Geneva Convention of the soul: why we need moral injury now -- Moral injury, a clinical portrait -- My sin is ever before me: moral injury and literary style -- Moral injury and moral repair in Crime and punishment -- The vices of our whole generation: collective moral injury in The Fall -- Signature wound: moral injury in Iraq War literature -- Witnessing to moral injury?
Summary:
"Moral injury is the name given to the lasting psychological damage that sometimes follows the commission or witnessing of a grievous wrong. This book introduces the concept to literary trauma studies while identifying and analyzing notable examples of moral injury in a variety of novels, poems, and plays"-- Provided by publisher.
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