Trauma and ethics in the novels of Graham Swift : no short-cuts to salvation /
Stef Craps.
- viii, 230 pages ; 23 cm.
What went before : a Swift survey -- Burying ’undying memories’ : traumatic denial in The sweet shop owner -- Getting rid of ’needless painful knowledge’ : problem dissolving in Shuttlecock -- ’To be realistic’ : close encounters of a traumatic kind in Waterland -- Cathartic fables, fabled catharses : photography, fiction and ethics in Out of this world -- When mourning comes : ever after, or the world well won -- ’All the same underneath’? : sympathy and ethics in Last orders -- Adieu : stepping into the light of day.
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Swift, Graham, 1949- --Criticism and interpretation