Volume 1 Issue 2

Contents

The Divided Legacy of the Republic of Letters: Emancipation and Trauma – Vladimir Biti

A Howl and a Black Cat: Allegory, Nonsense, and Ethics in Yann Martel’s Beatrice and Virgil– Jenni Adams

“We Must Not Forget That There Was a Crime”: Incest, Domestic Violence, and Textual Memory in the Novels of Iris Murdoch – Emma Miller

“How Art Works on the Pain Spectrum”: Ekphrasis and Trauma in Recent Poetry by Pascale Petit and Carol Rumens – David Kennedy

Sylvia Plath’s Ariel and Some Interpretations and Implications of Trauma and Narrative  – Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick

Book Review

Michelle Balaev, The Nature of Trauma in American Novels Marinella Rodi-Risberg

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