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This reinterpretation of Greek tragedy focuses on the performative - the physical and civic - dimension of tragedy. It challenges the idealist, humanist, and universalist approaches that have informed our most cherished philosophical psychoanalytical, and modern interpretations of Greek tragedy.
Bereavement in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Greek drama --- History and criticism.
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This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust. Each of these authors, through their respective narratives of bereavement, grapples with the challenge of how to write adequately about the deeply personal and painful experience of grief. In Jennifer Rushworth's analysis, discourses of mourning emerge as caught between the twin, conflicting demands of a comforting, readable, shared generality and a silent, solitary respect for the uniqueness of any and every experience of loss.Rushworth explores a variety of major questions in the book, including: what type of language is appropriate to mourning? What effect does mourning have on language? Why and how has the Orpheus myth been so influential on discourses of mourning across different time periods and languages? Might the form of mourning described in a text and the form of closure achieved by that same text be mutually formative and sustaining? In this way, discussion of the literary representation of mourning extends to embrace topics such as the medieval sin of acedia, the proper name, memory, literary epiphanies, the image of the book, and the concept of writing as promise.In addition to the three primary authors, Rushworth draws extensively on the writings of Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Roland Barthes. These rich and diverse psychoanalytical and French theoretical traditions provide terminological nuance and frameworks for comparison, particularly in relation to the complex term melancholia.
Bereavement in literature. --- Grief in literature. --- Dante Alighieri, --- Petrarca, Francesco, --- Proust, Marcel, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bereavement in literature. --- Bereavement --- Mothers in literature. --- Mothers --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychology.
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"How does modern writing in French grapple with the present absence and absent presence of lost loved ones? How might it challenge and critique the relegation of certain deaths to the realm of the unmournable? What might this reveal about the role of the literary in the French and francophone world and shifting conceptions of the nation state? Essays from the Revolution to the present day explore these questions from a variety of perspectives, bringing out the ways in which mourning blurs the boundaries between the personal and the historical, the aesthetic and the ethical, the self and the other, and ultimately reasserting its truly critical resonance as a concept"
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Grief and Meter provides a compelling account of how and why these poems are imbued with such power and significance.
Poets in literature. --- Bereavement in literature. --- English poetry --- American poetry --- Elegiac poetry, English --- Elegiac poetry, American --- American elegiac poetry --- History and criticism.
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This is a collection of essays on the subject of lament in the medieval period, with a particular emphasis on parental grief. The analysis of texts about pain and grief is an increasingly important area in medieval studies, offering as it does a means of exploring the ways in which cultural meanings arise from loss and processes of mourning. The international scholars who come together to produce this volume discuss subjects as diverse as lament psalms in Old and Middle English, medieval Latin laments, mourning in Anglo-Saxon literature, mourning through objects, medieval art and archaeology, Old French poetic elegy, skaldic poetry, medieval women’s writing, Old Polish drama, English massacre plays, and Middle English nativity lyrics.
History of Europe --- Thematology --- anno 500-1499 --- Bereavement in literature --- Death in literature --- Dood in de literatuur --- Mort dans la littérature --- Sterfte in de literatuur --- Deuil --- --Peine, --- Défunt --- --Littérature --- --Moyen âge, --- Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism --- Bereavement in literature. --- Death in literature. --- Laments --- History and criticism. --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Literature [Medieval ] --- Peine, --- Littérature --- Moyen âge, 476-1492 --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism
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Harold K. Bush's 'Continuing bonds with the dead' examines the profound transfiguration that the death of a child wrought on the literary work of nineteenth-century American writers. Taking as his subjects Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois, Bush demonstrates how the death of a child became the defining "before-and-after moment" in their lives as adults and as artists. In narrating their struggles, Bush maps the intense field of creative energy induced by revrberating waves of parental grief, and larger nineteenth-century culture of morality and grieving.
American literature --- Death in literature --- Bereavement in literature --- Children --- Parental grief --- Authors, American --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- American authors --- Grief in parents --- Grief --- Child death --- Terminally ill children --- History and criticism --- Psychology --- Psychological aspects --- History --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Death and future state --- Parental grief. --- Bereavement in literature. --- Death in literature. --- Psychology. --- Death. --- History and criticism.
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