Signifying loss : toward a poetics of narrative mourning /

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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), Signifying Loss studies not only how loss is signified, bu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gana, Nouri
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
Temas:
Loss (Psychology) in literature.
Grief in literature.
Grief > Political aspects.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Signifying (Rhetoric)
Perte (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Chagrin dans la littérature.
Chagrin > Aspect politique.
Psychanalyse et littérature.
Signifying (Rhétorique)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Gay & Lesbian.
Grief in literature
Loss (Psychology) in literature
Psychoanalysis and literature
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Thresholds of mourning: Freud and after
  • Horizons of desire, horizons of mourning: Joyce's Dubliners
  • The vicissitudes of melancholia in Freud and Joyce
  • Kincaid's claim: the poetics and politics of melancholia
  • The ineluctable modality of "posthumous infidelity": the ethics of mourning in Kincaid, Derrida, and Ben Jelloun
  • Formless form: Elias Khoury's City gates and the poetics of trauma
  • Coda: the politics of mourning.

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