Product Description: By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction (James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Elias Khoury, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida), Signifying Loss studies not only how loss is signified but also the ethico-political significance of such signifying...read more

Product Description: After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice...read more

Product Description: A revealing examination of an under-explored area of Shakespeare studies, this work looks at the evidence for the author's deep and evolving response to the loss of his only son, Hamnet.• Discussion of 20 of Shakespeare's works, concentrating on 16 works completed after his son Hamnet's death in 1596 • Chronological organization so readers can follow the development of Shakespeare's response to the death of Hamnet as reflected in the plays and poetry written following this tragedy• A cross-disciplinary bibliography, drawing especially on literary, theatrical, historical, thanatological, and psychological commentarie...read more

Product Description: Alone among contemporary American novelists, John Irving seems to bridge the ever-present cultural divide between best-selling fiction and serious literary endeavour. His Irvingnesque style encapsulates the shifting patterns of American culture since the 1960s, expressing a mood of nostalgic melancholy or cultural mourning, which seems to go against ideas of the Postmodern...read more

Product Description: In 'Companionship in Grief,' Jeffrey Berman focuses on the most life-changing event for many people the death of a spouse. Some of the most acclaimed memoirs of the past fifty years offer insights into this profound loss: C. S. Lewis s 'A Grief Observed;' John Bayley s three memoirs about Iris Murdoch, including 'Elegy for Iris;' Donald Hall s 'The Best Day the Worst Day;' Joan Didion s best-selling 'The Year of Magical Thinking;' and Calvin Trillin s 'About Alice...read more

Product Description: Opening up contemporary debates about emotion in social and historical contexts, Women and Ireland as Beckett's Lost Others investigates the relationship between emotion, memory, exile and language. Using a psychoanalytic framework, this monograph traces discourses of mourning (Klein), melancholia (Freud) and abjection (Kristeva) in Beckett's prose and drama, and demonstrates how Ireland and women are often Beckett's objects of loss...read more