Abstract:Mrs. Dalloway offers a profound depiction of the collective trauma landscape inWestern society following the First World War. Employing Cathy Caruth's trauma theory as ananalytical framework, this thesis focuses on the dimension of "body narratives" within the novel.The thesis finds that trauma achieves the "articulation of the unspeakable" through the process ofsomatization in the text: Septimus's hallucinations and suicide constitute a direct inscriptio...
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