Signifying loss : toward a poetics of narrative mourning / / Nouri Gana
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| Autore: |
Gana Nouri
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| Titolo: |
Signifying loss : toward a poetics of narrative mourning / / Nouri Gana
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| Pubblicazione: | Lewisburg, Pa., : Bucknell University Press, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809/.93353 |
| Soggetto topico: | Loss (Psychology) in literature |
| Grief in literature | |
| Grief - Political aspects | |
| Psychoanalysis and literature | |
| Signifying (Rhetoric) | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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, but also the ethico-political significance of such signifying. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Signifying loss |
| ISBN: | 1-61148-988-1 |
| 1-283-16355-1 | |
| 9786613163554 | |
| 1-61148-035-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910959114103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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