Signifying loss

Gana, Nouri.

Signifying loss toward a poetics of narrative mourning / [electronic resource] : Nouri Gana. - Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press, 2011. - 227 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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2011.
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Loss (Psychology) in literature.
Grief in literature.
Grief--Political aspects.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Signifying (Rhetoric)


Electronic books.

PN56.L58 / G36 2011eb

809/.93353