Sin Sick : : Moral Injury in War and Literature / / Joshua Pederson.

In Sin Sick, Joshua Pederson draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary theory of moral injury that addresses fictional representations of the mental anguish of those who have injured or killed others. Pederson's work fo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (204 p.) :; 1 chart
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Why We Need Moral Injury Now
  • 1 Moral Injury: A Clinical Portrait
  • 2 “My Sin Is Ever before Me”: Moral Injury and Literary Style
  • 3 Moral Injury and Moral Repair in Crime and Punishment
  • 4 “The Vices of Our Whole Generation”: Collective Moral Injury in The Fall
  • 5 “Signature Wound”: Moral Injury in Iraq War Literature
  • Coda: “Witnessing” to Moral Injury?
  • Works Cited
  • Index