A poetics of forgiveness: cultural responses to loss and wrongdoing

A poetics of forgiveness: cultural responses to loss and wrongdoing

Scott, Jill

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This study argues that the work of forgiveness can facilitate productive mourning and that creative communication plays a critical role in negotiating forgiveness. INDICE: Anger without Emotion: Why Revenge Works in Myth from The Iliad toKill Bill Mourning to the Limit: Forgiveness in H.D.'s The Gift Rhetorical Revenge and Textual Redemption in Kafka's Letter to his Father Rupture: Inappropriate Apology in Ingeborg Bachmann's The Book of Franza Visualizing Reconciliation: Photography and Forgiveness in Germany and Rwanda A Poetics of Ubuntu: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Metaphors of Forgiveness after 9/11

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-61531-1
  • Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 272
  • Fecha Publicación: 14/05/2010
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés