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Signifying Loss : Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning.

By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction (James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Elias Khoury, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida), SignifyingLoss studies not only how loss is signified but...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gana, Nouri
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface: The Poetics of Mourning; Acknowledgments; Chapter 01. Thresholds of Mourning: Freud and After; Chapter 02. Horizons of Desire, Horizons of Mourning: Joyce's Dubliners; Chapter 03. The Vicissitudes of Melancholia in Freud and Joyce; Chapter 04. Kincaid's Claim: The Poetics and Politics of Melancholia; Chapter 05. The Ineluctable Modality of "Posthumous Infidelity": The Ethics of Mourning in Kincaid, Derrida, and Ben Jelloun; Chapter 06. Formless Form: Elias Khoury's City Gates and the Poetics of Trauma; Coda: The Politics of Mourning; Notes; Bibliography; Index.