Signifying loss toward a poetics of narrative mourning - Gana, Nouri; ebrary, Inc. (Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press, 2011)
Thresholds of mourning: Freud and after -- Horizons of desire, horizons of mourning: Joyce's Dubliners -- The vicissitudes of melancholia in Freud and Joyce -- Kincaid's claim: the poetics and politics of melancholia -- The ineluctable modality of "posthumous infidelity": the ethics of mourning in Kincaid, Derrida, and Ben Jelloun -- Formless form: Elias Khoury's City gates and the poetics of trauma -- Coda: the politics of mourning.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Loss (Psychology) in literature; Grief in literature; Grief -- Political aspects; Psychoanalysis and literature; Signifying (Rhetoric); Electronic books