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Exploring grief : towards a sociology of sorrow
\"As modern society's routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-modern society's growing concern with existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a social emotion, bringing together contributions from scholars across the social sciences and humanities to examine its social and cultural aspects. Thematically organised in order to consider the historical changes in our understanding of grief, literary treatments of grief, contemporary forms of grief and grief as a perspective from which to engage in critique of society, it provides insights into the sociality of grief and will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory and cultural studies with interests in the emotions and social pathologies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Grief girl : my true story
The author describes how her parents were killed in a car accident when she was a teenager, and how she, her seventeen-year-old sister and three-year-old brother were left to deal with the pain and hardship while they struggled to survive on their own.
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“So That If One Dies”: The Narrative of the Replacement Child in Israeli Literature
This article deals with an unexamined aspect of the Israeli culture of bereavement and its ethos of sacrifice: the expanding legitimation among bereaved parents to actively strive to have a substitute child in place of one killed in the course of military service. It begins by reviewing recent civil initiatives aimed at utilizing new fertility technologies to realize this wish. Despite these developments, the claim this article seeks to promote and discuss is that the underlying aspiration for a replacement child has existed within the Israeli national order from the state’s early days, and has several common cultural symbolic and sublimative expressions, such as commemorating a dead soldier by naming newborn relatives for him. New fertility technologies have opened up a path to materialize symbolic modes of commemoration. The article closely examines the concept of the replacement child and the national logic guiding it in two novellas written at the millennium’s outset by two influential Israeli authors: “Diana’s Child” (Ha-yeled shel Diana) by Savyon Liebrecht and “My Younger Brother Yehudah” (Aḥi ha-ẓa’ir Yehudah) by Sami Berdugo.
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Transcending Melancholia: Mourning the Mother in The Old Curiosity Shop and Dombey and Son
According to \"Mourning and Melancholia,\" Trauerarbeit, the work of mourning, consists of a gradual realization that \"the loved object no longer exists, and it proceeds to demand that all libido shall be withdrawn from its attachments to that object. The libido is not detached from the dead one and then re-attached to a new love object, but rather is withdrawn into the ego where it establishes an identification with the lost object, thereby transforming \"an object-loss […] into an ego-loss, [since] the object-choice has been effected on a narcissistic basis\" (248). Because in melancholia there is no clear separation between the living subject and the dead one, \"the patient cannot consciously perceive what he has lost […]; he knows whom he has lost but not what he has lost in him\" (245, emphases in original). [...]he used to take me on his knee, and try to make me understand that she was not lying in her grave, but had flown to a beautiful country beyond the sky, where nothing died or ever grew old—we were very happy once!\" (55; ch. 6) This passage highlights several motifs. Besides the refusal to acknowledge both old age and death, and the denial of the pain of bereavement with Nell's insistence on happiness, the external resemblance between mother and daughter is also registered. Alas how calm they lay there; how little breath there was to stir them! [...]clinging fast to that slight spar within her arms, the mother drifted out upon the dark and unknown sea that rolls round all the world.
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“Nature Shrieking” and Parasitic Wasps: Mark Twain, Theodicy, and the War of Nature
After Susy's untimely demise, Mark and Livy's near obsession with Tennyson's elegy “In Memoriam” was similar to that of many other bereaved parents of the era: it had become the preeminent “grieving book” of the nineteenth century. The poem powerfully captures the growing spiritual disillusionment and uncertainty of the century, and its depiction of the underlying violence of nature foreshadowed Darwin's “war of nature” metaphor in his book On the Origin of Species. This article proceeds into three areas of related interest: first, a brief genealogy of the war of nature metaphor and its use prior to Twain; second, a look at how this concept is manifested in various written works of his; and third, a brief look forward at how the war of nature metaphor has continued to be deployed in literary works after Mark Twain—especially by Cormac McCarthy.
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Grief, Grieving, or Grieved: Michael Rosen's Sad Book and How to Cope with Grief for Kids and Grown-Ups
Death remains one of the most challenging conversations that caregivers and educators must have with children. How do we hold for children, in the words of poet Marie Howe, the complex truth that “we are living and dying at the same time”? Importantly, how can we help children have an emotional vocabulary that will help them to contend with the challenging reality that grief and loss are a fundamental part of the human experience?
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Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust
This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust. Each of these authors, through their respective narratives of bereavement, grapples with the challenge of how to write adequately about the deeply personal and painful experience of grief. In Jennifer Rushworth’s analysis, discourses of mourning emerge as caught between the twin, conflicting demands of a comforting, readable, shared generality and a silent, solitary respect for the uniqueness of any and every experience of loss. Key questions include: what type of language is appropriate to mourning? What effect does mourning have on language? Why and how has the Orpheus myth been so influential on discourses of mourning across different time periods and languages? Might the form of mourning described in a text and the form of closure achieved by that same text be mutually formative and sustaining? In this way, discussion of the literary representation of mourning extends to embrace topics such as the medieval sin of acedia, the proper name, memory, literary epiphanies, the image of the book, and the concept of writing as promise. In addition to the three primary authors, Jennifer Rushworth draws extensively on the writings of Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Roland Barthes. These rich and diverse psychonalytical and French theoretical traditions provide terminological nuance and frameworks for comparison, particularly in relation to the complex term melancholia.
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