Autore	Krupat Arnold
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina	810.9897
Soggetto topico	Indian literature - United States - History and criticism Folk literature, Indian - History and criticism American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism Elegiac poetry, American - Indian authors - History and criticism Indians of North America - Funeral customs and rites Loss (Psychology) in literature Death in literature Grief in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8014-6541-9 0-8014-6585-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Oral Performances (i) -- 2. Oral Performances (ii) -- 3. Authors and Writers -- 4. Elegy in the "Native American Renaissance" and After -- Appendix: Best Texts of the Speeches Considered in Chapter 2 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462150003321

Autore	Rickels Laurence A
Edizione	[[New ed.].]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (425 p.)
Disciplina	830.9/353
Soggetto topico	German literature - History and criticism Authorship - Psychological aspects Psychoanalysis and literature - Germany Death in literature Authors, German - Psychology
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4529-4716-3 0-8166-7690-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE: Invitation to a Reprinting; Aberrations of Mourning; INTRODUCTION; 1. AVUNCULAR STRUCTURES; 2. THE FATE OF A DAUGHTER; 3. THE FATHER'S IMPRISONMENT; 4. NECROFILIATION; 5. REGULATIONS FOR THE LIVING DEAD; 6. BURN NAME BURN; 7. WARM BROTHERS; 8. ARISTOCRITICISM; 9. THE UNBORN; NOTES; INDEX
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456853803321

Autore	Talley Sharon <1952->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (181 p.)
Disciplina	813/.4
Soggetto topico	Death in literature Fear of death in literature War in literature War stories, American - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-09843-1 9786613098436 1-57233-690-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Childhood and the fear of death in the Parenticide Club and "Visions of the Night" -- The failed journey to self-understanding in "The death of Halpin Frayser" -- Sacred to death: tales of terror from In the Midst of Life -- Doubling death: seeking the immortal self in stories from Can such things be? -- Courage and cowardice: facing death in Bierce's early Civil War writings -- Death before dishonor: seasoned soldiers and the burden of heroism -- Collateral damage: civilians and the human cost of war -- Seeking death: tales of suicidal war heroes -- Surviving war: "Phantoms of a blood-stained period" and posttraumatic stress disorder -- Bierce's final dance of death.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910458070103321

Autore	Cavitch Max
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (362 p.)
Disciplina	811.009/3548
Soggetto topico	Elegiac poetry, American - History and criticism American poetry - History and criticism Mourning customs in literature Grief in literature Death in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8166-9885-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: leaving poetry behind -- Legacy and revision in eighteenth-century Anglo-American elegy -- Elegy and the subject of national mourning -- Taking care of the dead: custodianship and opposition in antebellum elegy -- Elegy's child: Waldo Emerson and the price of generation -- Mourning of the disprized: African Americans and elegy from Wheatley to Lincoln -- Retrievements out of the night: Whitman and the future of elegy.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451775903321