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A Surplus of Melancholy: the Discourse of Mourning in Freud, Benjamin and Derrida
Nuevas Poligrafías, Revista de Teoría Literaria y Literatura Comparada, 2000 The author reviews the mourning, that is one of the most striking features of contemporary discourse in both literary theory and philosophy. Two different but related theories of mourning appear in Freud and Benjamin. In his turn, Derrida weaves the work
Carol L. Bernstein
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Why Materiality in Mourning Matters
, 2018 This chapter examines the role of materiality in mourning. Taking an understanding of materiality as the capacity of objects to possess agency by virtue of their effects, I argue that materiality is central to the workings out of mourning and loss ...
Michael Brennan, Brennan, Michael
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DIGITAL MOURNING: MOURNING: Dutch Shi'a Muharram Practices
, 2023 Final Conference Poster - Digital mourning: Dutch Shi’a Muhharam ...
ALI Aleeha Zahra
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Allison Levy. Re-Membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence: Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture. [PDF]
, 2009 peer reviewedBook Review of Allison Levy's Re-Membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence: Widowed Bodies, Mourning and ...
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An unfinished mourning: Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea (2016)
, 2017 This article considers the notions of grief and mourning in Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea (2016). The analysis centres on three moments characterized by the coexistence of two opposite states: numbness and an abundance of feelings; immobility ...
Angeli, S.
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Kurzmitteilung (2007) de Navid Kermani : l’écriture du deuil
Recherches Germaniques, 2016 Navid Kermani’s novel Kurzmitteilung (2007) shows a man who can’t help being in mourning after the death of a young woman he hardly knew. This paper begins with the legitimacy of mourning, a question that appears at the outset of the novel and determines
Emmanuelle Terrones
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, 2023 This paper explores the relationship of mourning and the gift in the work of Jacques Derrida. I argue that mourning is not a Derridean gift, but mourning does open us to the gift.
Bechtol, Harris B.
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Spectrality in the Short Story ‘The Fly’ by Katherine Mansfield
Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2012 Spectrality is a central aspect of the short story ‘The Fly’ by Katherine Mansfield. The notion of spectrality refers to phantoms and forbidding apparitions, all things that unhinges the mind. Spectrality is analysed in relation to Sigmund Freud’s essay,
Jacques Sohier
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Transformation of Rage : Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction.
, 1994 George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to ...
Johnstone, Peggy Fitzhugh
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European Journal of Life Writing, 2020 The past decade has seen an intense mobilization of grief and remembrance on social media linked to the injunction to inscribe, share, and curate life and death in the here-and-now.
Korina Giaxoglou
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