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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
R Clifton Spargo |
ISBN: | 0801879779 9780801879777 |
OCLC Number: | 54079825 |
Description: | x, 314 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Toward an ethics of mourning -- Mourning and substitution in Hamlet -- Lyrical economy and the question of alterity -- The ethical rhetoric of anti-elegy -- Wishful reciprocity in Thomas Hardy's Poems of 1912-13 -- The bad conscience of American holocaust elegy : the example of Randall Jarrell -- The holocaust she walks in : Sylvia Plath and the demise of lyrical selfhood. |
Responsibility: | R. Clifton Spargo. |
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Abstract:
He argues for the particular capacity of literature to undertake an imaginative risk on behalf of another that seems the very ground of ethics itself.
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Spargo challenges traditional ideas about mourning. Choice 2005 Engaging and wide-ranging study. -- Patricia Phillippy Shakespeare Yearbook 2007
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