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

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2022]

xiii, 302 pages ; 23 cm.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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

English

March 01, 2022

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.