Response to death : the literary work of mourning / edited by Christian Riegel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riegel, Christian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death in literature.

Bereavement in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Canadian review of comparative literature.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book presents a literary historical perspective on mourning, tracing examples of mourning in literary works from the medieval world to the present day. Contributors explore various themes related to mourning, beginning with the exploration of the medieval York Cycle of plays and medieval French woemen's lyric, and continuing throught eh Renaissance with considerations of Shakespeare, the 19th century, and into the 20th. Poetic and fictional examples of the work of mourning by writers as varied as George Eliot, Djuna Barnes, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Donald Hall, Paul Monette, Sylvia Plath, and John Berryman are discussed. The introduction by Christian Riegel establishes a theoretical framework that draws on psychological, linguistic, sociological, and anthropological writing and the works of Derrida, Freud, Giddens, Sophocles, Milton and Tennyson."

Contents:

Introduction : the literary work of mourning / Christian Riegel

Mourning, heresy, and resurrection in the York Corpus Christi cycle / Leanne Groenveld

Mourning becomes electric : the politics of grief in Shakespeare's Lucrece / Heather Dubrow

The king id dead : mourning the nation in the three parts of Shakespeare's Henry VI / Lisa Dickson

Women's poetry of grief and mourning : the languages of lament in sixteenth-century French lyric / Melanie E. Gregg

Mourning, myth, and merchandising : the public death of Princess Charlotte / Stephen C. Behrendt

Adam's mourning and the Herculean task in Adam Bede / Barbara Hudspith

"Hieroglyphics of sleep and pain" : Djuna Barnes's Anatomy of menancholy / Garry Sherbert

Colossal departures : figuring the lost father in Berryman's and Plath's poetry / Ernest Smith

Reading the ethics of mourning in the poetry of Donald Hall / Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack

"If only I were Isis" : remembrance, ritual, and writing in Lola Lemire Tostevin's Cartouches / Thomas M.F. Gerry

Land of their graves : maternity, mourning and nation in Janet Frame, Sara Suleri, and Arundhati Roy / Katherine G. Sutherland

Using up words in Paul Monette's AIDS elegy / Lloyd Edward Kermode.

Notes:

Co-published by the Canadian review of comparative literature/Revue canadienne de litterature comparee, as vol. 30, no. 1 (2003).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-262) and index.

ISBN:

1-4593-0001-7

OCLC:

647755033