Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)

Synopsis

This Work Brings Together Three Authors Who Have Written Movingly About Mourning: Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, And Marcel Proust. Jennifer Rushworth Explores How Each Of Them, Through Their Respective Narratives Of Bereavement, Grapples With The Challenge Of How To Write Adequately About The Deeply Personal And Painful Experience Of Grief. Introduction : Interpolating The Medieval And The Modern -- Mourning And Acedia In Dante -- Petrarch's Fraught Poetics Of Melancholia -- Proust's Recherche, Derridean 'demi-deuil', And Mimetic Mourning -- Epilogue : In Search Of An Ending. Jennifer Rushworth. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 163-194) And Index.