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Spargo R. Clifton

    R. Clifton Spargo è un romanziere e critico culturale il cui lavoro si addentra nelle profondità della cultura contemporanea e dell'esperienza umana. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da un intelletto acuto e da una profonda comprensione delle complessità della vita moderna. Come abile narratore, Spargo intreccia concetti intellettuali stimolanti con narrazioni avvincenti che inducono alla riflessione. I suoi contributi a prestigiose riviste letterarie e saggi dimostrano la sua capacità di fondere l'analisi letteraria con un commento sociale impegnato.

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    The Ethics of Mourning
    • The Ethics of Mourning

      Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature

      • 338pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      "Beginning from a reevaluation of famously inconsolable mourners ranging from Niobe to Hamlet, R. Clifton Spargo discerns the tendency of all grief to depend at least temporarily upon the refusal of consolation. By disrupting the traditional social and psychological functions of grief, the resistant mourner transforms mourning into a profoundly ethical act. Spargo finds such examples of ethical mourning in opposition to socially acceptable expressions of grief throughout the English and American elegiac tradition. Drawing on the work of Paul Ricoeur, Bernard Williams, and Emmanuel Levinas, his book explores the ethical dimensions of anti-consolatory grief through astute readings of a wide range of texts - including Hamlet and works by Milton and Renaissance elegists; more recent poetry by Dickinson, Shelley, and Hardy; and American Holocaust elegies by Sylvia Plath and Randall Jarrell."--Jacket

      The Ethics of Mourning
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      Zelda und F. Scott Fitzgerald. Roman

      Eine Hommage an das Jazz-Age-Traumpaar! Hollywood/Havanna 1939: Wilde Zeiten liegen hinter Zelda und F. Scott Fitzgerald, der Glanz des Weltbestsellers Der große Gatsby scheint längst verblasst, als das einstige Glamourpaar der Roaring Twenties zu einer Reise nach Kuba aufbricht – ein letzter Versuch, die turbulenten Jahre hinter sich zu lassen und neu anzufangen … R. Clifton Spargos lebendiges und einfühlsames Porträt des legendären Jazz Age-Traumpaars bietet einen facettenreichen, authentischen Blick hinter die Kulissen einer außergewöhnlichen Künstlerehe und zugleich eine faszinierende Zeitreise in die wilden Zwanziger- und Dreißigerjahre.

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