Lamentation and Modernity in Literature, Philosophy, and Culture

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-349-53934-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 233 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

Saunders analyzes the ideological uses of loss in literary, philosophical, and social texts from the late 19th and 20th centuries through the lens of women's lament traditions and includes philosophical texts by Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida; and literary works by William Faulkner, Stéphane Mallarmé, Dimitris Hatzis, and Tahar Ben Jelloun.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saunders, R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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: Mallarmé's 'Hommage', wagnérisme, and French Nationalism of the 1880s Lamentation and National Identity: Hatzis's To diplo biblio and the (De)Construction of Modern Greece Lamentation and Gender: Ben Jelloun's L'Enfant de Sable and the (De)Colonization of the Body

Über Autor(innen)

REBECCA SAUNDERS is Associate Professor in the department of English at Illinois State University, USA.