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Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs

Autor Jennifer Rushworth
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 noi 2016
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198790877
ISBN-10: 0198790872
Pagini: 218
Dimensiuni: 164 x 239 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Rushworth has more than proven her command of literary theory and textual interpretation. Her thirty pages of bibliography testify to her scholarly attentiveness. It is to be hoped that, in her future work, she will explore some of the more imaginative implications of this study and contribute to the ongoing dialogue between medievalists and postmodernists that is invigorating both their fields.

Notă biografică

Jennifer Rushworth is a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford.