Variations on the Ethics of Mourning in Modern Literature in French (Modern French Identities #143)

Variations on the Ethics of Mourning in Modern Literature in French (Modern French Identities #143)

Jean Khalfa (Other), Carole Bourne-Taylor (Editor), Sara-Louise Cooper (Editor)
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Publication Date: November 9th, 2021
Publisher:
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
ISBN:
9781789972733
Pages:
316
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Description

How does modern writing in French grapple with the present absence and absent presence of lost loved ones? This book explores the question from the Revolution to the COVID pandemic, showing how mourning blurs the boundaries between the personal and the historical, the aesthetic and the ethical.

About the Author

Carole Bourne-Taylor is Associate Professor of French, Fellow and Tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford. Her interdisciplinary research includes publications on literature in English and French, phenomenology and the performing arts. Sara-Louise Cooper is Lecturer in French at the University of Kent. Her research interests include migration, memory studies and comparative critical method. She has published work on Patrick Chamoiseau, Georges Perec, Vladimir Nabokov and Maryse Condé. She is currently working on a monograph on contemporary Caribbean writing and «world literature».

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