Spectral Mourning in Contemporary British Fiction, Fachbücher
89,90 €
This book investigates the motif of spectral mourning in John Banville's The Sea, Tim Parks' Destiny, and Ian McEwan's The Child in Time and sheds new light on the conjunction of mourning, mystery and ghosts in English literature. While the Freudian position of mourning is taken as a theoretical point of departure, the main focus is on Jacques Derrida's ethics of mourning and other contemporary mourning theories which conceive of mourning as an interminable and irresolvable process. These theories centre on ethical responsibility to the Other, a discourse in critical theory that is known as the ethics of alterity, and insist that ethical mourning involves maintaining the relationship between self and other rather than breaking the bonds between the living and the dead. The motif of the spectre looms large in this discourse, highlighting the liminal aspect of relations between self and ot.
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