Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust /
This book 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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (218 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780192508287 0192508288 9780191833335 0191833339 9780192508294 0192508296 |