Ted Hughes and Trauma : Burning the Foxes

Arguing that Hughess poetry is fundamentally defined by traumatic representation, Ted Hughes and Trauma reads Hughess work alongside theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek - the kind of writing Hughes dismissed as the tyrants whisper. Far from being antithetical to his poetry, Danny OConnor demonstrates they are actually dealing with the same issues. Detailed, engaging and promising to offer an entirely new approach to Hughess work, Ted Hughes and Trauma is an important study for all scholars and students of higher-level literature.