{"product_id":"sin-sick-2","title":"Sin Sick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSin Sick,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Pederson draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary theory of moral injury that addresses fictional representations of the mental anguish of those who have injured or killed others.\u003c\/b\u003e Pederson's work foregrounds moral injury, a recent psychological concept distinct from trauma that is used to describe the psychic wounds suffered by those who breach their own deeply held ethical principles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplementing writings on trauma theory that posit the textual manifestation of trauma as absence, \u003ci\u003eSin Sick\u003c\/i\u003e argues that moral injury appears in literature in a variety of forms of excess. Pederson closely reads works by Dostoevsky (\u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e), Camus (\u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e), and veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (Brian Turner's\u003ci\u003e Here, Bullet\u003c\/i\u003e; Kevin Powers' \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Birds\u003c\/i\u003e; Phil Klay's \u003ci\u003eRedeployment\u003c\/i\u003e; and Roy Scranton's \u003ci\u003eWar Porn\u003c\/i\u003e), contending that recognizing and understanding the suffering of perpetrators, without condoning their crimes, enriches the experience of reading—and of being human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Joshua Pederson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573500412086,"sku":"9781501755897","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781501755897.jpg?v=1712138565","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/sin-sick-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}