Response To Death The Literary Work Of Mourning

_While much of contemporary thinking about mourning is informed by twentieth-century intellectual endeavours, literature tells us that writers and thinkers have been comtemplating how to deal with death for centureis_probably since the beginning of literary culture._ From the introduction by Christian Riegel.Response to Death presents a literary historical perspective on mourning, tracing examples of mourning in literary works from the medieval world to the present day. Contributors offer a chronological examination of the concept of the work of mourning in specific literary and historical contexts, beginning with an exploration of the medieval York Cycle of plays and medieval French women_s lyric, and continuing through the Renaissance with considerations of Shakespeare, the nineteenth century, and into the twentieth-century. Poetic and fictional examples of the work of mourning by writers as varied as George Eliot, Djuna Barnes, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Donald Hall, Paul Monette, Sylvia Plath, and John Berryman are discussed.The introduction by Christian Riegel establishes a theoretical framework that draws on psychological, linguistic, sociological, and anthropological writing, as well as philosophical and literary writing, including writers and thinkers such as Derrida, Freud, Giddens, Sophocles, Milton, and Tennyson.Christian Riegel teaches Canadian literature, genre studies, and poetry at Campion College at the University of Regina. He is the author of Writing Grief: Margaret Laurence and the Work of Mourning, and editor of Challenging Territory: The Writing of Margaret Laurence and A Sense of Place: Re-evaluating Regionalism in Canadian and American Writing.Cover credit: ALAN TO SUPPLY$34.95 in CanadaThe University of Alberta PressCanadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature ComparéePrinted in CanadaBook design by Alan Brownoffwww.uap.ualberta.caRiegel, Christian E. is the author of 'Response To Death The Literary Work Of Mourning', published 2005 under ISBN 9780888644213 and ISBN 0888644213.