Title
"Going All to Pieces": A Farewell to Arms as Trauma Narrative
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Reads Henry’s retelling of his past trauma as a form of “prosthetic thinking,” attempting to make whole his now fragmented body and consciousness. Asserts that Henry’s shell shock, though never explicitly mentioned, causes dissociation with his body, present reality, and emotional awareness, ultimately leading to his inability to control and articulate his present even as he attempts to reconcile it with the past. Significantly revised version published as “No Separate Peace: A Farewell to Arms as Trauma Narrative” in Shell Shock, Memory, and the Novel in the Wake of World War I, 83-110. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Published in
Twentieth-Century Literature
Volume
52
Issue
3
Date
Fall 2006
Pages
249-274
Citation
Dodman, Trevor. “‘Going All to Pieces’: A Farewell to Arms as Trauma Narrative.” Twentieth-Century Literature 52, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 249-74.