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Why are so many contemporary poets writing elegies? Given a century shaped by two world wars, vast population displacements, and shifting attitudes towards aging and death, is the elegy form adaptable to the changing needs of writers and audiences? In a sceptical age, where can consolation be found? In We Are What We Mourn Priscila Uppal examines why and how the work of mourning has drastically changed in the latter half of the twentieth century, focusing on the strong pattern in contemporary English-Canadian elegy that emphasizes connection rather than separation between the living and the dead. Uppal offers a penetrating reading of Canadian elegies that radically challenges English and American elegy traditions as well as long-standing psychological models for successful mourning. She sets up useful categories for elegy study - parental elegies, elegies for places, and elegies for cultural losses and displacements - and suggests where elegy and mourning studies might be headed post 9/11. The first book on the Canadian poetic elegy, We Are What We Mourn challenges all previous ideas about the purpose of mourning and will intrigue anyone interested in how mourning shapes cultural identity.

Death in literature. --- Grief in literature. --- Mourning customs in literature.

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The author of the widely acclaimed Morphology of the Folktale has written an original, comprehensive, and exciting study on how humour works, and on everything you wanted to know about the genre, in a clear, approachable, and insightful manner.

Comic, The, in literature. --- Laughter in literature. --- Humor in literature.

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Inspired by the growing interest in oriental countries and cultures, Hasan Baktir examines the representation of the ""Ottoman Orient"" in 18th century English literature, taking a new perspective to achieve a comprehensive understanding and investigating different aspects of the interaction between the Ottoman Orient and 18th century Europe.A number of questions continue to arise in the wake of Said's 1978 landmark study, ""Orientalism"". How monodirectional was the flow of power in such representations?

Orientalism in literature. --- Civilization, Oriental, in literature. --- Orient --- In literature.

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Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood-what constitutes a self-have changed over time, so too have ideas about how to represent, shape, or invade the self. The authors show that, since the Renaissance, changes in observation strategies have driven innovations in literature; literature, in turn, has provided a laboratory and forum for the way we think about surveillance and privacy. Ultimately, they contend that the habits of mind cultivated by literature make rational and self-aware participation in contemporary surveillance environments possible. In a society increasingly dominated by interlocking surveillance systems, these habits of mind are consequently necessary for fully realized liberal citizenship.

Self in literature. --- Privacy in literature. --- Citizenship in literature.

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Bei Genet lässt sich eine Sprache der Liebe feststellen, die sich jenseits des sexuellen Verlangens äußert. Liebe wird emblematisch durch eine mütterliche Position beschrieben, die aus der christlichen Tradition vertraut ist. Die in Genets Romanen auftretenden Männer erinnern an bekannte Bildnisse der Heiligen Gottesmutter, insbesondere an Darstellungen der Mater Dolorosa. Unbestritten entwerfen die Romane männliche Protagonisten in einer Eindringlichkeit, der man sich nur schwer entziehen kann. Doch betrachtet man sie genauer, weisen sie weibliche, ja mütterliche Qualitäten auf, die den ersten Eindruck als Illusion anzeigen und eine neue Lesart empfehlen. Dadurch dass in „Das Lied der Liebe bei Jean Genet“ erstmals Liebe nicht sexuell begriffen wird, entsteht eine neuartige Lektüre dieses Autors, die von Roland Barthes’ inspiriert ist. In Verbindung mit dieser anderen Wertung des Liebesdiskurses stellt der Band Bezüge zur christlichen Ikonographie in den Mittelpunkt.

Love in literature. --- Eroticism in literature. --- Erotica in literature