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Christy, Kathrine. "In Bitter Safety I Awake": the classics as traumatic experience. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-mzsd-js11

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Title"In Bitter Safety I Awake": the classics as traumatic experience
NameChristy, Kathrine (author); Fiske, Shanyn (chair); Rutgers University; Camden Graduate School
Date Created2019
Other Date2019-05 (degree)
SubjectClassics, English, Canon (Literature) -- Explication, Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Social aspects, Homer -- Odyssey -- Translations
Extent1 online resource (ii, 23 pages)
DescriptionMultiple colleges in recent years have experienced an outbreak of student protest against teaching ancient Greek and Roman texts. The objections frame the texts as too traumatic for students to experience. In this thesis I explore how Classicists and others in the wider culture are responding to such objections, as well as what such objections suggest about how our culture confronts (or does not confront) the traumatic experience of reading a text. Drawing on Sebastian Junger’s Tribe, as well as Harold Bloom’s Map of Misreading, I argue that the popular oversimplification of the trauma offered by Homer or Ovid is in fact an attempt to access the emotional experience offered by such texts, and that such texts can in fact fulfill a function of providing meaning through the traumatic experience of reading that they offer, and that the intense responses to such texts prove their continuing relevance and their necessity. I argue also that such texts can be immensely helpful in the processing of real-world trauma.
NoteM.A.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-mzsd-js11
LanguageEnglish
CollectionCamden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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