Ted Hughes and Trauma

Arguing that Hughes's poetry is fundamentally defined by traumatic representation, Ted Hughes and Trauma reads Hughes's work alongside theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek - the kind of writing Hughes dismissed as 'the tyrant's whisper'. Far from being antithetical to his poetry, Danny O'Connor demonstrates they are actually dealing with the same issues. Detailed, engaging and promising to offer an entirely new approach to Hughes's work, Ted Hughes and Trauma is an important study for all scholars and students of higher-level literature.

Provides a in-depth reading of some of Hughes' most iconic works in relation to his literary criticism

Offers an accessible analysis of Hughes' poetry

Situates Hughes' canon within its historical moment while arguing for its future relevance

Autorentext
Danny O'Connor teaches at The University of Liverpool,UK. This is his first book.

Inhalt
Introduction. A tyrannical reading of Ted Hughes.- Chapter One. Hughes's Creaturely Creatures.- Chapter Two. Hughes's Landscape, Lacan's Real.- Chapter Three. En Attendent Crow.- Chapter Four. Hughes meets Bacon, Baskin and the Big Screen.- Chapter Five.Hughes and War Trauma.- Chapter Six. Hughes and the Burning of Literary Criticism.- Chapter Seven. 'She did life'.- Chapter Eight. Hughes, the Goddess and the Foundational Fantasy.- Conclusion. A New Classicism?.- Acknowledgments.- Bibliography.