Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Limping Back to Life after War
- 1 Index, Ghost, Dream
- 2 Reality, Disillusionment, Play
- 3 War Life, Life as War
- 4 Prosthetic Irony – The Ghost in the Machine
- 5 The Prosthesis and Burial, Or Caring for the Dead
- 6 Body and Metaphor
- Conclusion: Leaving the Island
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 June 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Limping Back to Life after War
- 1 Index, Ghost, Dream
- 2 Reality, Disillusionment, Play
- 3 War Life, Life as War
- 4 Prosthetic Irony – The Ghost in the Machine
- 5 The Prosthesis and Burial, Or Caring for the Dead
- 6 Body and Metaphor
- Conclusion: Leaving the Island
- Index
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- Poetic ProstheticsTrauma and Language in Contemporary Veteran Writing, pp. i - ivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2022