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"This collection of critical essays investigates various forms of loss portrayed in late 20th and early 21st century Anglophone fiction. Loss of individuals, places, identity, values, treasured objects and moments frequently causes a reconsideration of life among literary characters and narrators."--Back cover.
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Narrating loss: representations of mourning, nostalgia and melancholia in contemporary Anglophone fictions
2014, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
in English
3868215557 9783868215557
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Table of Contents
Loss and the nation in David Mitchell's Black swan green / Gerd Bayer
Making up for loss of child: ambivalences and alternative concepts of mother-/parenthood in J.M. Coetzee's Age of iron / Christiane Maria Binder
Surviving loss in contemporary Anglophone narratives on Bulgaria / Anja Müller
Mourning and waiting: Nadeem Aslam's Maps for lost lovers / Peter Childs
Memory, migration, and transnational encounters in Jane Urquhart's Sanctuary line / Eleanor Ty
Emplotting historical trauma: multiperspectivity in contemporary historical fiction in North America / Jutta Zimmermann
"Soldiers from the war returning:" private and public discourses of loss in Pat Barker's Another world / Silvia Mergenthal
Dark histories of the soul: loss and haunting in Michèle Roberts's Daughters of the house / Maria Jesús Martinez-Alfaro
"At times it feels as if life is the greatest loser:" old age, death and grief in Julian Barnes's later works / Heike Hartung
Lost at sea: mourning, melancholia and maritime mindscapes in early 21st century British and Irish fiction / Anne-Julia Zwierlein
The figure of the orphan in contemporary fiction / Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz
Goodness lost: Nick Hornby's How to be good and Carol Shields's Unless / Anca-Raluca Radu
Ghosts, texts, phantom texts: McEwan's Saturday and Joyce's "The dead" / Jean-Michel Ganteau
" ... no signal at all:" loss in John Banville's Eclipse, Shroud, and Ancient light / Ralf Haekel
The art of losing: a reading of "Simon's Luck" by Alice Munro / Burkhard Niederhoff
"The art of losing:" elegiac quest in Paul Auster's The invention of solitude / Jutta Ernst
Loss, melancholy and memory in W.G. Sebald's The emigrants / Susana Onega
Graphic grief / Dirk Vanderbeke.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-326).
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