Discrepant Solace : Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 60738159
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/oso/9780198789758.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198789758
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Ten years in the making, this book brings together a wide range of contemporary writers from very different cultural contexts, working in diverse modes and genres. This global corpus is matched in scope by the book's interpretive and methodological ambitions: it seeks to rethink some of the fundamental assumptions that have shaped critical accounts of the relationship between literary representation and loss. It aims to offer an alternative vocabulary for articulating the political and aesthetic value of writing that responds to trauma, grief, illness and dread, drawing on the history of emotions, nursing ethics, philosophy, affect theory, and bereavement studies.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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