Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
: A - 26A - Modern Languages
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics : A - 26A - Modern Languages
- Output identifier
- 12572
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198790877
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 200-page book is an ambitious study of three authors from markedly different time periods, spanning medieval Italian poetry (Dante, Petrarch) and early twentieth-century French prose (Proust). It considers mourning as a literary theme, and in terms of imagery, intertextuality, form, and structure. It is not only comparative but also highly theoretical, innovatively engaging with diverse theories of mourning from Freud to Barthes, Derrida, and Kristeva. It draws on lengthy and complex primary texts in Italian, Latin, and French, and is in dialogue with the exceptionally wide range of secondary criticism — across four languages — on these major authors.
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- Non-English
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