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Lamentation and modernity in literature, philosophy, and culture

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Lamentation and modernity in literature, philosophy, and cultureRebecca Saunders.
Author:	Saunders, Rebecca,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2007.
Description:	xvii, 233 p.
Subject:	Loss (Psychology) in literature.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230607057

Lamentation and modernity in literature, philosophy, and culture
Saunders, Rebecca,1961-

Lamentation and modernity in literature, philosophy, and culture[electronic resource] /Rebecca Saunders. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2007. - xvii, 233 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-223) and index.

Heavy Losses: Modernity, Trauma, Philosophy -- And the Women Wailed in Answer: The Lament Tradition -- Lamentation and (Dis)Possession: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and the New South -- Lamentation and Purity: Mallarém's Hommage, wagnerisme, and French Nationalism of the 1880s -- Lamentationand National Identity: Hatzis's To diplo biblio and the (De)Construction of Modern Greece -- Lamentation and Gender: Ben Jelloun'sL'Enfant de Sable and the (De)Colonization of the Body.

Examining modernity's pervasive rhetoric of loss and crisis from theunique perspective of women's lament traditions, Lamentation and Modernity analyzes the ideological uses of loss in literary,philosophical, and social texts from the late 19th and 20th centuries. A significant reassessment ofconceptions of modernity, At God's Funeral contains studies of the lament tradition and the historyof trauma; of philosophicaltexts by Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida; of literary works by WilliamFaulkner, Stephane Mallarém, Dimitris Hatzis, and Tahar Ben Jelloun,and of relevant cultural contexts, including the American New South, French nationalism of the 1880s, the Greek independence struggle, and the (de)colonization of Morocco.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230607057

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230607057doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

398471
Loss (Psychology) in literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN56.L58 / S28 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.93353

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