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Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust (Hardcover)
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Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination,
three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two
medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and
one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust. Each of
these authors, through their respective narratives of bereavement,
grapples with the challenge of how to write adequately about the
deeply personal and painful experience of grief. In Jennifer
Rushworth's analysis, discourses of mourning emerge as caught
between the twin, conflicting demands of a comforting, readable,
shared generality and a silent, solitary respect for the uniqueness
of any and every experience of loss. Rushworth explores a variety
of major questions in the book, including: what type of language is
appropriate to mourning? What effect does mourning have on
language? Why and how has the Orpheus myth been so influential on
discourses of mourning across different time periods and languages?
Might the form of mourning described in a text and the form of
closure achieved by that same text be mutually formative and
sustaining? In this way, discussion of the literary representation
of mourning extends to embrace topics such as the medieval sin of
acedia, the proper name, memory, literary epiphanies, the image of
the book, and the concept of writing as promise. In addition to the
three primary authors, Rushworth draws extensively on the writings
of Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Roland
Barthes. These rich and diverse psychoanalytical and French
theoretical traditions provide terminological nuance and frameworks
for comparison, particularly in relation to the complex term
melancholia.
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