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Signifying loss : toward a poetics of narrative mourning

Title
Signifying loss : toward a poetics of narrative mourning / Nouri Gana.
Author
Gana, Nouri.
Publication
Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.

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Description
227 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Loss (Psychology) in literature
  • Grief in literature
  • Grief > Political aspects
  • Psychoanalysis and literature
  • Signifying (Rhetoric)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 11-1295
ISBN
  • 9781611480344 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1611480345 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010023549
OCLC
YBP 2010023549
Author
Gana, Nouri.
Title
Signifying loss : toward a poetics of narrative mourning / Nouri Gana.
Imprint
Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 11-1295
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