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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"mourner"”.
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Mourning Gendered Discipline: Virginia Woolf and the Modern Elegy
… Through the characterization of Lily--a female mourner who makes efforts to control grief, to reject the legacy left by the dead, and to consolidate her own identity in mourning for Mrs. Ramsay--Woolf breaks the traditional imagination of female mourners and challenging the female discipline in …
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The Naturalist
… elegy. I explore the idea that the contemporary mourner is aware of the need to search for meaning despite living in a world without a centrally believed mythology. This search exposes the mourner's need to remain connected to the dead and, by proxy, to grace. I conclude that the contemporary …
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The Parted Voice: Polyvocal Utterance in Victorian Elegies
… examines elegies that divide the voice of the mourner not only as to express utterances of sorrow, but also to assert poetic authority, to navigate collective loss, and respond to historical changes in poetic reception over the nineteenth century. Bringing together formalist and historicist …
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Pouring out tears: Andromache in Homer and Euripides
… war. Third, by highlighting Andromache’s role as mourner, the authors closely examine the particular suffering of women in times of war. The thesis concludes that Andromache has remained a powerful, iconic figure in the Trojan War tradition because of her role as a representative of the universal …
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“das ungewisse”: the Uncertain Time of Paul Celan’s “Grabschrift für François”
… of the survivor to loss, that of the “exilic mourner.” It is through these various interventions that I conclude that uncertain time is not simply an idea but part of the poem, part of the poetic structure of the text, that serves to keep the poem—in Celan’s own terms—“speaking” of loss.
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Apocalypse and elegy in contemporary american fiction
… the contemporary elegy often denies the mourner such release from grief. Consequently, in the contemporary novels discussed, consolation is to be found elsewhere. Indeed, I conclude that despite the melancholia of novels that deal so intensely with death, suffering, and tragedy, the act …
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A ritual investigation of sudden death events in an urban united states emergency department
… ED, leaving the ED and re-entering society as a mourner and final rituals. It was concluded that the ritual process overall gave structure and meaning to staff and families involved in sudden death events.</p>
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Waiting for Death: The Poetic Transformation of Grief An Autoethnography
… ceremonies, sung by the woman who is the primary mourner, the unbearable becomes not only bearable but also expressible and inclusive. I discover that as I live and observe my own process I experience a surprising transformation. I go to the origins of shared cultural experience. Like the Yolngu, …
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Waiting for Death: The Poetic Transformation of Grief An Autoethnography
… ceremonies, sung by the woman who is the primary mourner, the unbearable becomes not only bearable but also expressible and inclusive. I discover that as I live and observe my own process I experience a surprising transformation. I go to the origins of shared cultural experience. Like the Yolngu, …
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A Ritual Aesthetics of Loss and Memory among the Boe (Bororo)
… the feeding relationship between the lead mourner (known as ‘mother of souls’) and the deceased’s soul. Chapter Three carries this analysis outward into a wider relational aesthetics between performers and audience at large, construed as the living and the dead. Overall, this aesthetics …