The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature

by R. Clifton Spargo

The Ethics of Mourning dramatically shifts the critical discussion of the lyric elegy from psychological economy to ethical responsibility. Beginning from a reevaluation of famously inconsolable mourners such as Niobe and Hamlet, R. Clifton Spargo discerns the tendency of all grief to depend at least temporarily upon the refusal of consolation. By disrupting the traditional social and psychological functions of grief, resistant mourners...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000H60A2A
• ISBN13: 9780801879777
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"