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A Poetics of ForgivenessMourning to the Limit: Forgiveness in H.D.’s The Gift

A Poetics of Forgiveness: Mourning to the Limit: Forgiveness in H.D.’s The Gift [War is war. Whether the World Wars or the War on Terrorism, war is ugly and violent, and results in unspeakable human suffering, collective and individual. Responses to the loss and destruction of war are inevitably complex, psychically and politically, and include a range of emotions: anger, hatred, resentment, sadness, and perhaps even apathy or resignation. From Freud’s first attempt to map out the psychic response to loss in “Mourning and Melancholia” to Walter Benjamin’s historical materialist approach, to Judith Butler’s work on melancholia and vulnerability, the discourse on mourning is vast.1 In the most positive sense, mourning can be a productive practice involving witness, memory, and history, bringing meaning to issues of ethics and identity.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Poetics of ForgivenessMourning to the Limit: Forgiveness in H.D.’s The Gift

Scott, Jill
Springer Journals — Oct 10, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
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978-1-349-37911-8
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45 –64
DOI
10.1057/9780230106246_3
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Abstract

[War is war. Whether the World Wars or the War on Terrorism, war is ugly and violent, and results in unspeakable human suffering, collective and individual. Responses to the loss and destruction of war are inevitably complex, psychically and politically, and include a range of emotions: anger, hatred, resentment, sadness, and perhaps even apathy or resignation. From Freud’s first attempt to map out the psychic response to loss in “Mourning and Melancholia” to Walter Benjamin’s historical materialist approach, to Judith Butler’s work on melancholia and vulnerability, the discourse on mourning is vast.1 In the most positive sense, mourning can be a productive practice involving witness, memory, and history, bringing meaning to issues of ethics and identity.]

Published: Oct 10, 2015

Keywords: Productive Practice; Gift Exchange; Funeral Rite; Political Reconciliation; Holy Ghost

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