Reading Suffering between the Lines: Trauma and Witnessing in Old and Middle English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Garcia, Anca Olguta Giorgiana.
Reading Suffering between the Lines: Trauma and Witnessing in Old and Middle English Literature.
- Published
- Ph.D. dissertation (University of South Florida, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A85.01 (E). Accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed January 1, 2025).
- Physical Description
- iv, 308 pp
- Description
- Applies modern trauma theory to medieval English texts: "Beowulf," "Dream of the Rood," "Pearl," and LGW. Addresses sexual abuse and the witnessing of such abuse in LGW, focusing on "tropes of indirection, silence, and repetition."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women