The ethics of mourning : grief and responsibility in elegiac literature / R. Clifton Spargo.

Publication | Library Call Number: PR408.M7 S68 2004

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Spargo, R. Clifton.
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
Locale: English-speaking countries
Language: English
External Link: Contributor biographical information
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Table of contents

Physical Description: x, 314 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Toward an ethics of mourning
Mourning and substitution in Hamlet
Lyrical economy and the question of alterity
The ethical rhetoric of anti-elegy
Wishful reciprocity in Thomas Hardy's Poems of 1912-13
The bad conscience of American holocaust elegy : the example of Randall Jarrell
The holocaust she walks in : Sylvia Plath and the demise of lyrical selfhood.
ISBN: 0801879779
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Toward an ethics of mourning -- Mourning and substitution in Hamlet -- Lyrical economy and the question of alterity -- The ethical rhetoric of anti-elegy -- Wishful reciprocity in Thomas Hardy's Poems of 1912-13 -- The bad conscience of American holocaust elegy : the example of Randall Jarrell -- The holocaust she walks in : Sylvia Plath and the demise of lyrical selfhood.
Subjects: English literature--History and criticism.
Mourning customs in literature.
Judaism and literature--English-speaking countries.
Elegiac poetry, American--History and criticism.
Elegiac poetry, English--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Loss (Psychology) in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Grief in literature.
Death in literature.
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