The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature by R. Clifton Spargo

The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature

R. Clifton Spargo

328 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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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...

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