An unreliable narrator and a stormy relationship propel Stephanie Bishop's moody new novel
- Written by: Jessica Gildersleeve, Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
ShutterstockCathy Caruth’s foundational work on trauma theory, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History (1996), includes a chapter on the notion of the falling body.
Caruth sees in this a way of understanding language’s capacity for representation. She quotes Paul de Man, who uses a marionette performance to describe the...