Borrow it
Coverart for item
The Resource The ethics of mourning : grief and responsibility in elegiac literature, R. Clifton Spargo

The ethics of mourning : grief and responsibility in elegiac literature, R. Clifton Spargo

Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (x, 314 pages)
Note
OldControl:muse9780801888847
Contents
  • Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Re-Theorizing Ethics -- The Language of the Other -- Ethics as Critique -- Post-1945 Memory -- 1 Ethics as Unquieted Memory -- Facing Death -- Mourning the Other Who Dies -- To Whom Do Our Funerary Emotions Refer? -- Reading Grief's Excess in the Phaedo -- The Death of Every Other -- The Universal Relevance of the Unjust Death -- The Holocaustâ€?Not Just Anybody's Injustice -- 2 The Unpleasure of Conscience -- Is Sorry Really the Hardest Word? -- Unpleasure, Revisited
  • The Bad Conscience in HistoryThe Bad Conscience and the Holocaust -- Coda -- 3 Where There Are No Victorious Victims -- Accountability in the Name of the Victim -- Not Just Any Victim -- Levinas and the Question of Victim-Subjectivity -- Just Who Substitutes for Another? -- Victim of Circumstances -- Questionably Useful Suffering -- 4 Of the Others Who Are Stranger than Neighbors -- The Stranger, Metaphorically Speaking -- The Memory of the Stranger -- Somebody's Knocking at the Door . . . -- Lest We Forgetâ€?the Neighbor
  • The Community of Neighborsâ€?Is It a Good Thing?How Well Do I Know My Neighbor? The Exigency of Israel and the Holocaust -- Afterword. Ethics versus History: Is There Still an Ought in Our Remembrance? -- The Memory of Injustice -- Nobody Has to Remember -- Why Should I Care? -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Isbn
9780801879777
Instance
Label
The ethics of mourning : grief and responsibility in elegiac literature
Title
The ethics of mourning
Title remainder
grief and responsibility in elegiac literature
Statement of responsibility
R. Clifton Spargo
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Member of
Cataloging source
CN8ML
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Spargo, R. Clifton
Dewey number
820.9/3559
Index
index present
LC call number
PR408.M7
LC item number
S68 2004
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Death in literature
  • Grief in literature
  • Ethics in literature
  • Loss (Psychology) in literature
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
  • American literature
  • Elegiac poetry, English
  • Elegiac poetry, American
  • Judaism and literature
  • Mourning customs in literature
  • English literature
  • American literature
  • Death in literature
  • Elegiac poetry, American
  • Elegiac poetry, English
  • English literature
  • Ethics in literature
  • Grief in literature
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
  • Judaism and literature
  • Loss (Psychology) in literature
  • Mourning customs in literature
  • English-speaking countries
Label
The ethics of mourning : grief and responsibility in elegiac literature, R. Clifton Spargo
Instantiates
Publication
Note
OldControl:muse9780801888847
Antecedent source
not applicable
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Re-Theorizing Ethics -- The Language of the Other -- Ethics as Critique -- Post-1945 Memory -- 1 Ethics as Unquieted Memory -- Facing Death -- Mourning the Other Who Dies -- To Whom Do Our Funerary Emotions Refer? -- Reading Grief's Excess in the Phaedo -- The Death of Every Other -- The Universal Relevance of the Unjust Death -- The Holocaustâ€?Not Just Anybody's Injustice -- 2 The Unpleasure of Conscience -- Is Sorry Really the Hardest Word? -- Unpleasure, Revisited
  • The Bad Conscience in HistoryThe Bad Conscience and the Holocaust -- Coda -- 3 Where There Are No Victorious Victims -- Accountability in the Name of the Victim -- Not Just Any Victim -- Levinas and the Question of Victim-Subjectivity -- Just Who Substitutes for Another? -- Victim of Circumstances -- Questionably Useful Suffering -- 4 Of the Others Who Are Stranger than Neighbors -- The Stranger, Metaphorically Speaking -- The Memory of the Stranger -- Somebody's Knocking at the Door . . . -- Lest We Forgetâ€?the Neighbor
  • The Community of Neighborsâ€?Is It a Good Thing?How Well Do I Know My Neighbor? The Exigency of Israel and the Holocaust -- Afterword. Ethics versus History: Is There Still an Ought in Our Remembrance? -- The Memory of Injustice -- Nobody Has to Remember -- Why Should I Care? -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Control code
794701463
Extent
1 online resource (x, 314 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780801879777
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
not applicable
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)794701463
Label
The ethics of mourning : grief and responsibility in elegiac literature, R. Clifton Spargo
Publication
Note
OldControl:muse9780801888847
Antecedent source
not applicable
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Re-Theorizing Ethics -- The Language of the Other -- Ethics as Critique -- Post-1945 Memory -- 1 Ethics as Unquieted Memory -- Facing Death -- Mourning the Other Who Dies -- To Whom Do Our Funerary Emotions Refer? -- Reading Grief's Excess in the Phaedo -- The Death of Every Other -- The Universal Relevance of the Unjust Death -- The Holocaustâ€?Not Just Anybody's Injustice -- 2 The Unpleasure of Conscience -- Is Sorry Really the Hardest Word? -- Unpleasure, Revisited
  • The Bad Conscience in HistoryThe Bad Conscience and the Holocaust -- Coda -- 3 Where There Are No Victorious Victims -- Accountability in the Name of the Victim -- Not Just Any Victim -- Levinas and the Question of Victim-Subjectivity -- Just Who Substitutes for Another? -- Victim of Circumstances -- Questionably Useful Suffering -- 4 Of the Others Who Are Stranger than Neighbors -- The Stranger, Metaphorically Speaking -- The Memory of the Stranger -- Somebody's Knocking at the Door . . . -- Lest We Forgetâ€?the Neighbor
  • The Community of Neighborsâ€?Is It a Good Thing?How Well Do I Know My Neighbor? The Exigency of Israel and the Holocaust -- Afterword. Ethics versus History: Is There Still an Ought in Our Remembrance? -- The Memory of Injustice -- Nobody Has to Remember -- Why Should I Care? -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Control code
794701463
Extent
1 online resource (x, 314 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780801879777
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
not applicable
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)794701463

Subject

Genre

Member of

Library Locations

    • Ellis LibraryBorrow it
      1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, MO, 65201, US
      38.944491 -92.326012

Library Links

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by University of Missouri Libraries. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.
Processing Feedback ...