Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Encounters between Trauma and Ekphrasis, Words and Images -- De te fabula narratur! Violence and Representation in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance -- What Does It Mean To Be Human? Speculative Ekphrasis and Anthropocene Trauma in Don DeLillo’s Zero K -- The Ordinariness of Trauma: Reconstructing Intertextuality as an Aesthetics of Trauma -- Terrorizing Images and Traumatic Anticipation in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours -- Phantomogenic Ekphrasis: Traumatizing Images in Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man -- Reenacting Rape in Edouard Louis’s History of Violence -- Empathic Vision? War Photography, Ekphrasis, and Memory in Bosnian War Literature -- Remedial Intermediality: Ekphrasis in Sinead Morrissey’s "The Doctors" -- Traumatizing Images of Belfast in Mary Costello’s Novel Titanic Town -- Ekphrasis and the Holocaust: Traumatic Images in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones -- White Oblivion: Antarctica and the Suspension of Trauma -- Contributors -- Index.