Research Catalog

Title

Variations on the ethics of mourning in modern literature in French / Carole Bourne-Taylor, Sara-Louise Cooper, [eds] ; with a preface by Dominique Rabaté.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2022]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bourne-Taylor, Carole, 1968-
• Cooper, Sara-Louise
• Rabaté, Dominique

Description

xv, 302 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"How does modern writing in French grapple with the present absence and absent presence of lost loved ones? How might it challenge and critique the relegation of certain deaths to the realm of the unmournable? What might this reveal about the role of the literary in the French and francophone world and shifting conceptions of the nation state? Essays from the Revolution to the present day explore these questions from a variety of perspectives, bringing out the ways in which mourning blurs the boundaries between the personal and the historical, the aesthetic and the ethical, the self and the other, and ultimately reasserting its truly critical resonance as a concept"--

Series Statement

Modern French identities, 1422-9005 ; vol. 143

Uniform Title

Modern French identities ; v. 143.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• French literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Bereavement in literature
• Liminality in literature
• Philosophy, French, in literature
• French literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Carole Bourne-Taylor -- PART 1: Unmournable Revolutions -- Impossible Mourning: Funeral Orations for Louis XVI (1814-1815) / Benjamin Thurston -- Unmourned Histories in Gustave Flaubert's L'Éducation sentimentale / Rachel Benoît -- PART II: Inconsolable (Af)filiations -- The Rhythm of Mourning in Proust (with Barthes and Derrida) / Jennifer Rushworth -- Mourning Their Mothers: Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and the Gift of Tears / Henriette Korthals Altes -- With Barthes and Derrida in 'the Margins of a Funereal Songs': The Poetics of Maternal Mourning in the Work of Abdelkébar Khatibi / Khalid Lyamlahy -- Mourning the Mother, Mourning the World: Patrick Chamoiseau's La Matiére de l'absence / Sara-Louise Cooper -- PART III: Poétique: Between New Elegy and Anti-Elegy -- 'The Door Pushed Back the Light': On a Phenomenology of Mourning in Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jacques Roubaud / Ariane Mildenberg -- The Ends and Beginnings of Language in Valérie Rouzeau's Pas revoir / Daisy Sainsbury -- Poethic Justice: Re-incarnations in Emmanuel Merle's Poetry / Carole Bourne-Taylor -- Conclusion: Mourning in Motion from Ireland to the Caribbean / Sara-Louise Cooper.

Call Number

JFE 22-1737

ISBN

• 9781789972733
• 1789972736

LCCN

2021013728

OCLC

1252739745

Title

Variations on the ethics of mourning in modern literature in French / Carole Bourne-Taylor, Sara-Louise Cooper, [eds] ; with a preface by Dominique Rabaté.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Modern French identities, 1422-9005 ; vol. 143

Modern French identities ; v. 143.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Bourne-Taylor, Carole, 1968- editor.

Cooper, Sara-Louise, editor.

Rabaté, Dominique, author of preface.

Other Form:

Online version: Variations on the ethics of mourning in modern literature in French New York : Peter Lang, 2021. 9781789972740 (DLC) 2021013729

Research Call Number

JFE 22-1737