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

Published Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 314 pages) 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 Holocaust�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 Forget�the Neighbor The Community of Neighbors�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 Analysis "Multi-User" Notes OldControl:muse9780801888847 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Death in literature. Grief in literature. Ethics in literature. Loss (Psychology) in literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. American literature -- History and criticism. Elegiac poetry, English -- History and criticism Elegiac poetry, American -- History and criticism Judaism and literature -- English-speaking countries Mourning customs in literature. English literature -- History and criticism. 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 Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780801888847 0801888840 9780801879777 0801879779

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