http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/trauma-studies Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:14:28 -0400 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:14:28 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/898/trauma-reenactment-in-the-gothic-loop-a-study-on-structures-of-circularity-in-gothic-fiction By Andrea Juranovszky - Ever since its original emergence, Gothic fiction has been shaped by a unique narrative direction that is often described by scholars and readers alike as retrospective, repetitive, or circular in nature. Gothic texts progress as if through a series of flashbacks, always reviving deeds of the past in order to point out a problem, which, however strongly rooted in some ancient heritage, prevails in the present and calls for immediate resolution. David B. Morris defines the typically Gothic vision of history as one where “the past interpenetrates the present time, as if events were never entirely... Fri, 23 May 2014 10:46 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/898/trauma-reenactment-in-the-gothic-loop-a-study-on-structures-of-circularity-in-gothic-fiction http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/568/tim-obriens-the-things-they-carried-postmodern-fiction-for-a-postmodern-war By Laurence R. Kowalewski - In the western history of human existence the event, idea, and act of war stands totemic in the landscape. Borders both physical and mental have been defined by its threat and execution, and its aura hangs heavily over the last century as the bloodiest in the entire narrative of humanity.[1] During a period widely considered to be the most perfect example of the efficient, mechanised destruction of life—the Holocaust—David Rousset gave a name to the experience he saw inside the internment camps as “l’univers concentrationnaire,” a world apart.[2] This succinct explanation... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/568/tim-obriens-the-things-they-carried-postmodern-fiction-for-a-postmodern-war