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The Veteran Who Is, The Boy Who Is No More. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 164
Despite the discovery of Post-traumatic Stress
Disorder in the late 1970s, the phenomenon is hardly
new. Modernist writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Green, and in later years
J.D. Salinger wrote extensively of the most assured
and costly casualty of war: the soldier's self.
This dissertation examines how the great writers of
the World Wars have already told readers of the
costs of war and in doing so have presented accounts
that are far simpler yet more profound than modern
interpretations. The problem with understanding
these accounts of trauma is that they come from
societies where the explicit reference to the
psychological devastation of war was strictly
forbidden, thus leaving the rerader to infer the
true costs. Only in understanding the modern
psychological interpretations of trauma studies can
one reread these authors and understand what was
truly written and understand that war's cost has
always been recorded in literature, even though it
typically has been left for the discerning reader to
infer.
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