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The Ethics of Mourning : Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature
The Ethics of Mourning Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature
Author: R. Clifton Spargo
The Ethics of Mourning dramatically shifts the critical discussion of the lyric elegy from psychological economy to ethical responsibility. Beginning from a reevaluation of famously inconsolable mourners such as Niobe and Hamlet, R. Clifton Spargo discerns the tendency of all grief to depend at least temporarily upon the refusal of consol...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801879777
ISBN-10: 0801879779
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 328
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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