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R. Saunders - Lamentation and Modernity in Literature, Philosophy, and Culture - 9781349539345 - V9781349539345
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Lamentation and Modernity in Literature, Philosophy, and Culture

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Description for Lamentation and Modernity in Literature, Philosophy, and Culture Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSBH5. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 324.
Saunders analyzes the ideological uses of loss in literary, philosophical, and social texts from the late 19th and 20th centuries through the lens of women's lament traditions and includes philosophical texts by Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida; and literary works by William Faulkner, Stéphane Mallarmé, Dimitris Hatzis, and Tahar Ben Jelloun.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
233
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349539345
SKU
V9781349539345
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About R. Saunders
REBECCA SAUNDERS is Associate Professor in the department of English at Illinois State University, USA.

Reviews for Lamentation and Modernity in Literature, Philosophy, and Culture
Through a series of probing theoretical reflections and incisive close readings, ranging over important texts of both critical theory and literature, Saunders's book explores the haunting role of lamentation in modernity. She sees lamentation as an aesthetic and political form interacting with traumatic loss and traversing various genres, discourses, and rhetorical traditions. Transnational and interdisciplinary in scope, this excellent study ... Read more

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