Title
Trauma and the Structure of Social Norms: Literature and Theory Between the Wars
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Opens with an exploration of how the literary grotesque for post-World War I authors became a means of characterizing war, arguing that for Hemingway the grotesque signified degeneration. Analyzes how the author uses the grotesque in For Whom the Bell Tolls to violate conventional boundaries, like the division between human and animal, to define what it means to love and be human, especially in time of great conflict.
Published in
The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. From the Civil War Through World War II
Date
2002
Pages
131-156
COinS
Citation
Dawes, James. “Trauma and the Structure of Social Norms: Literature and Theory Between the Wars.” In The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. From the Civil War Through World War II, 131-156. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.