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Lankford, Megan. "Nature and grief : an ecocritical analysis of grief in children's literature." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23715.
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This study explores the role of nature in three picture books that broach the topics of death, grief, depression, or loss: Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen’s Lifetimes, Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree, and Roni Schotter and Kimberly Bulcken Root’s In the Piney Woods. Using a close reading of both the text and the visual images, these picture books are analyzed for their use of nature in discussing the concepts of death, regeneration, life, and the life cycle. The three texts reflect two primary historical trends of ecocriticism that of nature-as-space and nature-as-knowledge as exemplified by writers in the Romantic era, the American pastoral, and the Victorian period. Through a further examination of the text and image relationship within the text, the texts are then analyzed for their effectiveness and accessibility to children within the practice of bibliotherapy.
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Gillaspy, Kelley Marie. "Flatlines| A Memoir of Grief." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10643131.
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This dissertation is a hybrid project that includes a critical paper and a collection of creative writing, including poems, a nonfiction piece, several drama pieces, and an erasure project. The critical paper is an analysis of the mental ailments and disassociated discourse of Anton Chekhov’s characters in three of his plays—The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, and The Cherry Orchard. Many of Anton Chekhov’s characters display symptoms of depression, including suicide attempts, and formal thought disorder. The creative section’s drama pieces were loosely influenced by Anton Chekhov’s work, but all of the work completed in the creative section is connected through common themes of mental illness and grief. Many of the poems in this section symbolize grief through the loss of a father. Some of the more grief-stricken moments are symbolically represented through animals, such as the mice in “All Summer.” Later, this same type of grief is transformed in “Flatlines,” the titular work of the dissertation, to a young woman’s reimaging and hallucination of childhood characters brought to life to her by her father’s death. The last work presented in this creative section is the erasure project that blends the poetry with the drama–a stage manager’s notes blacked out, silenced, and relit with a different perspective, but still a connection to the theatre’s space, set, and characters.
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Roulette, Mary. "The Grief Bearers." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1492086599791465.
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Stickley, Patrick R. "Grief in the Iliad." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/205.
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This paper addresses the causes and effects of grief within Homer's Iliad. In addition, this paper argues that error, both committed and suffered, is the primary cause of grief, and that grief is particularly transformative in regard to Achilles, both in his motivations and his physicality.
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Spargo, R. Clifton. "The ethics of mourning : grief and responsibility in elegiac literature /." Baltimore (Md.) ; London : the J. Hopkins university press, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39275034x.
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Widerburg, MaryAnn. "This Grief I Cannot Hold." DigitalCommons@USU, 2014. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/3312.
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At seventeen, I lost my fourteen-year old brother in a shooting accident. After hearing the news of my brother’s death, my Great Aunt Mary wrote a letter to my family. The one line I remember was “I’ve heard that it takes three years to heal from the passing of a loved one.” Five years after Jacob’s death, I was once again confronted with losing a brother. Jaxon was born and died within twenty-four hours. I hadn’t yet “healed” from Jacob’s death, and I didn’t know how to do so.
The elusive nature of memory when confronted with personal trauma calls into question issues of identity. Does the previous self still exist after loss? In this memoir I document the impact of tragic grief and how death not only informs how we perceive the future, but how we interpret our past selves. Through the tri-part structure, I experiment with viewpoint, beginning with a first person “I,” struggling to fit my brothers’ deaths into a single narrative line. From here, the narrative shatters as I reflect upon my childhood self with a different lens and the distance of third person--the self being so fractured, there is no “I” left. Finally, the memoir moves to direct address, speaking to Jacob. Jacob is now a “you,” an alive and vibrant presence that becomes a part of the narrator as she explores her grief and begins to piece herself back together. Through this exploration, she discovers that “healing” is complex and that art can both aid in the process and chart the path.
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Watson, Cortland L. "Very Young Child Survivors of Parent Suicide: Perspectives on Children's Literature for Bibliotherapy." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2021. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9005.
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The death of a parent by suicide is especially traumatic. Researchers estimate the number of children in the United States annually who experience their parent's suicide ranges from 7,000 to 30,000. These child survivors experience more complicated grief as compared to children bereaved by a parent's non-suicidal death. In particular, very young children have difficulty understanding that their parent completed suicide. Across time they struggle with confusion and intense emotions associated with their parent's suicide. Due to the stigma associated with suicide, feelings of guilt, and intense grief, surviving family members avoid talking about the suicide. Young children are often confused and suffer in silence with limited understanding about who the deceased parent was and why the parent completed suicide. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven adults, who as young children experienced the death of their father by suicide. All participants reported being five years old or younger at the time of the suicide. Participants explained how they found out about the suicide; how they developed an understanding of their deceased father across the years; and how they developed memories of their father, largely dependent on others' stories and reported details. At the conclusion of the interviews, participants were offered nine children's picture books. Participants self-selected books from these nine books and offered their impressions about how these books may or may not be helpful for young child survivors of parent suicide. Their reactions to the books are discussed in relationship to their personal stories and lived experiences. Their reactions have implications for how potential books must be carefully selected, making considerations in light of the child's unique experiences. Participants' responses highlighted the importance of attachment issues, the challenges of forming a connection to the deceased loved one with limited memories of their parent. Ultimately, survivors' perceptions and experiences are tied to the challenges of navigating Worden's (1996) tasks of grief. Implications for applied practice include considering how to use children's literature to open and encourage communication, allowing children to ask questions about the suicide; supporting young children in accepting the reality of their parent's death; facing the grief and pain with the support of loved ones; adapting to changes in their life's trajectory due to their father's suicide and adapting to altered family relationships; and building memories of the deceased loved one, and when possible, ensuring healthy attachment to the deceased parent.
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Fowler, Rebekah Mary. "Mourning, Melancholia, and Masculinity in Medieval Literature." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/336.
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This dissertation examines male bereavement in medieval literature, expanding the current understanding of masculinity in the Middle Ages by investigating both the authenticity and affective nature of grief among aristocratic males. My focus is on the pattern of bereavement that surfaces across genres and that has most often been absorbed into studies of lovesickness, madness, the wilderness, or more formalist concerns with genre, form, and literary convention, but has seldom been discussed in its own right. This pattern consists of love, loss, grief madness and/or melancholy, wilderness lament/consolation, and synthesis and application of information gleaned from the grieving process, which is found is diverse texts from the twelfth century romance of Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain to the fifteenth century dream vision/consolatio Pearl. A focused study of how bereavement is represented through this pattern gains us a deeper understanding of medieval conceptions of emotional expression and their connections to gender and status. In other words, this project shows how the period imagines gender and status not just as something one recognizes, but also something one feels. The judgments and representations of bereavement in these texts can be explained by closely examining the writings of such religious thinkers as Augustine and Aquinas, who borrow from the neo-Platonic and Aristotelian schools of thought, respectively, and both of whom address the potential sinfulness and vanity of excessive grief and the dangers for this excess to result in sinful behavior. This latter point is also picked up in medical treatises and encyclopedic works of the Middle Ages, such as those of Avicenna and Isidore of Seville, which are also consulted in this project. The medieval philosophical and medical traditions are blended with contemporary theories of gender, authenticity, and understanding, as well as an acknowledgement of the psychoanalytic contributions of Freud and Lacan. Through these theories, I explore the capacity for the men in these texts to move beyond the social strictures of masculinity in order to more authentically grieve over the loss of their loved ones, which often constitutes a type of lack. However, my purpose is not to view losses as lack, but rather, to see them as a positive impetus to push beyond the limits of social behavior in order to realize textually various outcomes and to suggest the limitations of such socially sanctioned conventions as literary forms, language, rituals, understanding, and consolation to govern the enactment of grief.
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Beaudoin, Myriam 1976. "L'ecriture du deuil, suivi de, Un petit bruit sec dans la chambre et puis rien." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32899.
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The critique entitled "L'ecriture du deuil" studies ten contemporary works of literature in light of psychoanalytical theories on mourning. The authors of the chosen pieces are always a grieving narrator going through the long process of mourning and relating the past with the lost loved one. The objective of this memoire is to verify whether or not writing permits the narrators to come to terms with the death, in other words, if it helps them to detach themselves definitively from the lost or inversely, leads them to pathological grievance aimed at reviving the deceased.The work of fiction entitled "Un petit bruit sec dans la chambre et puis rien" describes the degeneration, the suffering and the death of a father along with the upheaval of the narrator's family unit, herself struck by the news.
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Traversy, Sophie. "Écrire le deuil : suivi de, Le trou dans la vie." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112593.
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The "Ecrire le deuil" critique studies how grief takes place in literary works as a fundamental theme, which develops in three different stages: shock and avoidance, disorganization and reinsertion. In the end, the creator's identity is reinforced and transformed by this hardship, which in a way forced him to write.The ten short stories forming the anthology "Le trou dans la vie" deal with all kinds of grief, recent or old, throbbing or diffuse. The characters are all struggling with an absence, and must reconstruct their lives around it. Both subject and driving force of the creative process, loss is the hub of all those short stories.
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Reed, Kristin. "The rhetoric of grief Seamus Heaney, Joseph Brodsky, Yves Bonnefoy, and the modern elegy /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3386713.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Comparative Literature, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 15, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4669. Adviser: David Hertz.
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Ring, Betty Joan. "Grief-works : knowledge and history in the early novels of William Golding." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321575.
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This thesis focuses on the early novels and collected essays of William Golding. It addresses Golding's perception of the Second World War as a catalyst which precipitates a necessary and radical revision of pre-war consciousness and belief. In the wake of the multiple forms of violence enacted during the 1930s and 40s Golding's work can be seen to constitute a powerful medium through which the cultural and psychic crises of twentieth-century Europe are articulated. In this respect Golding can be read as a specifically post-Holocaust writer, one whose works need to be understood in relation to the extremes of twentieth-century history. Using the insights of psychoanalysis and feminism the thesis also explores Golding's sexual politics. Focusing on representations of sexual difference and male desire it argues that Golding's theology and history can be seen to be gendered. This aspect of his work in turn provides a means for exploring the relationship between individual and collective violence, and for articulating a postwar psycho-history. In addition, the question of origins, so vital to a writer so much concerned with the moment of the Fall, can be seen to be manifested through Golding's return to the female source of life. As his texts demonstrate, a failure to embrace this creative force, or indeed a retreat from this origin, can have profound repercussions for both men and women. It is this gendered theology and indeed, gendered history which enable the traditional view of Golding as a reactionary and predominantly didactic writer to be challenged
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Reis, Ashley E. "With the Earth in Mind: Ecological Grief in the Contemporary American Novel." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849760/.
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"With the Earth in Mind" responds to some of the most cutting-edge research in the field of ecocriticism, which centers on ecological loss and the grief that ensues. Ecocritics argue that ecological objects of loss abound--for instance, species are disappearing and landscapes are becoming increasingly compromised--and yet, such loss is often deemed "ungrievable." While humans regularly grieve human losses, we understand very little about how to genuinely grieve the loss of nonhuman being, natural environments, and ecological processes. My dissertation calls attention to our society's tendency to participate in superficial nature-nostalgia, rather than active and engaged environmental mourning, and ultimately activism. Herein, I investigate how an array of postwar and contemporary American novels represent a complex relationship between environmental degradation and mental illness. Literature, I suggest, is crucial to investigations of this problem because it can reveal the human consequences of ecological loss in a way that is unavailable to political, philosophical, scientific, and even psychological discourse.
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Doyle, Trista Dawn. "Insidious Vulnerability: Women's Grief and Trauma in Modern and Contemporary Irish Fiction." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107960.
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Thesis advisor: James M. SmithThis dissertation examines individual experiences of grief and trauma in Irish writing from 1935 to 2013, focusing specifically on novels by Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett, Sebastian Barry, and Eimear McBride. It offers a feminist reclamation of personal forms of loss that fall outside the purview of documented history and that typically go overlooked in literary criticism. Examples in this study include the suffering caused by the natural death of a family member, infertility, domestic and sexual abuse, social ostracism, institutionalization, and forced adoption. Through careful close readings of Bowen’s The House in Paris (1935) and The Death of the Heart (1938), Beckett’s Molloy (1955), Barry’s The Secret Scripture (2008), and McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing (2013), I unpack how women’s insidious vulnerability to grief and trauma manifests in modern and contemporary Irish fiction. The works I discuss here reveal the depth and complexity of grief—making visible forms of loss and violence that society tends to ignore, working through what impedes the grieving process, and giving voice to underrepresented experiences of emotional and psychological suffering. Over three chapters, I engage with the discourses of trauma theory, Irish memory studies, and modernism and its afterlives. I draw on feminist psychiatrist Laura S. Brown’s discussion of “insidious trauma” to inform my own concept, “insidious vulnerability,” which I use to refer to the persistent threat of loss and violence that haunts marginalized groups in their daily lives. Likewise, I make reference to the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic definition of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to distinguish trauma from other forms of emotional and psychological distress. I contribute to Irish memory studies by extending the critical conversation beyond public historical events (like the Easter Rising of 1916)—to include private forms of grief and trauma, particularly in the lives of women. Furthermore, I focus on authors who innovate, whose novels exhibit dissatisfaction with the limitations of conventional realist narratives and who attempt new modes of representation in an effort to articulate the inexpressible and the unexpressed. Bowen and Beckett stand as representatives of late modernism (1930s-1950s), while Barry and McBride help extend literary modernist afterlives into the twenty-first century
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
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Elsner, Anna Magdalena. "Mourning and creativity in A la recherche du temps perdu." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609265.
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Snoddy, Ashley Marie. "Death and Dying in Adolescent Literature." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1394210773.
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Harmon, Threatt Elizabeth A. "The Dreams of Daughters." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337264211.
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McPeak, Rickie Allen. "Iconoclasm or iconography? : responses to the death of the "other" in Lev Tolstoy's prose /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7162.
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Quick, Benjamin A. "The Shape of Grief: A Generational Legacy of the Vietnam War." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/933.
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As Tim O'Brien advises in The Things They Carried, "You can tell a true war story by the way it never seems to end" (76). If the war story never seems to end, then how does it manifest in future generations? In my case, as the first-born son of a Vietnam veteran, the war story has played out physically, within my body, in the form of an Agent Orange-related disability. How has my response to disability affected both the fine details and the overall texture of my life? My father also suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for several years after his return, a timeframe that happens to coincide with the first and most impressionable years of my life. How has this affected my relationships to my disability and to the world at large? Lastly, what can a chronicle of Agent Orange in Vietnam tell me about my own story?
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Almquist, Karin Marie. "Works of mourning : Francophone women's postcolonial fictions of trauma and loss /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3153777.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-215). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Cassel, Adrienne M. "Field Guide to the Heart." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307320455.
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Smith, Tiffany. "The Long Horizon." DigitalCommons@USU, 2019. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7593.
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The idea for my thesis stemmed from a braided essay I wrote for a creative writing class. I didn’t initially plan on expanding my class essay into a memoir, but I have discovered that oftentimes the story finds us rather than the other way around. Using the memoir form allowed me to bridge quite naturally the subjects of grief and landscape by giving me space to reflect on a turbulent period in my life and arrive at some sort of conclusion. While I could see the importance of the natural world in my life, I didn’t realize at first how it helped me work through the grief, depression, and anxiety I experienced after my mother passed away. Writing about that period of my life helped me see the direct connections between landscape and healing. Grief itself can feel circular or like a whirlpool with no escape. Healing, on the other hand, transpires more linearly. For that reason, I decided to use geology as a metaphor to demonstrate how I worked through the emotional landscape of grief toward acceptance and healing after tragedy.
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Morozow, Larissa. "Assisting Individuals Struggling with Grief: A Review of the Literature on Grief and its Treatment and Evaluating the Efficacy of Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) with Grieving Individuals: A Randomised Control Trial." Thesis, Morozow, Larissa (2014) Assisting Individuals Struggling with Grief: A Review of the Literature on Grief and its Treatment and Evaluating the Efficacy of Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) with Grieving Individuals: A Randomised Control Trial. Masters by Coursework thesis, Murdoch University, 2014. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/21979/.
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This review begins by placing grief that relates to the loss of someone important to us, within the context of an almost universal experience. It acknowledges the impact of grief as being costly to both the individual’s well-being and the community more broadly, as well as identifying some of the difficulties associated with affording complicated grief a diagnosis. The review examines theoretical approaches which are informative in both the understanding of grief and also its treatment. Regarding the psychotherapeutic treatment of grief it is concluded that there appears a lack of clarity and consistency in information regarding the treatment of grief in an individual setting. This arises from a number of methodological shortcomings apparent in clinical trials which subsequently limit several meta-analyses. Nevertheless, the literature does reveal clear support for the use of interventions in cases where grief is chronic or complicated in nature, in particular interventions based on a cognitive-behavioural therapy framework. Given that complicated grief is not afforded a classification within the DSM-5 to guide clinicians it is critical, for the benefit of both clinicians and those in grief, that the trialling of potentially timely and appropriate interventions are conducted in ways that attempt to overcome the limitations of those studies identified above.
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McCall, Catherine W. "Lifeguarding : a memoir of family /." Electronic version (PDF), 2003. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2003/mccallc/catherinemccall.pdf.
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Belanger, Alisa. "Deuil et co-création dans l'œuvre de Denise Desautels." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82683.
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This thesis analyzes the relationship between collaboration and learning to cope with grief in Denise Desautels' poetic works. It shows that this writing strategy influences the representation of mourning and contributes to the learning process, which is characterized by a constant oscillation between opposing poles, such as life and death, the past and present, the self and other, the private and public realms, as well as art and writing. The thesis further demonstrates that Desautels' development of an interdisciplinary approach gives rise to a community of the bereaving and enables the poetic subject to distance herself from melancholy in order to foster a new aim toward happiness. It concludes that the mourning process never reaches completion, but is constantly renegotiated.
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Duncanson, Cassie. "Scattered Sandpipers." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4504.
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Scattered Sandpipers is a Young Adult novel excerpt. Seventeen-year-old Bee, lost her mother two years ago in a car crash. As she denies and represses her grief, strange and magical things begin to happen.
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Ericksen, Nicole. "Reveille and Retreat: A Middle Grade Novel." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu15960239133245.
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Leavy, Deon G. "Facilitating communication about death between mothers and adolescent sons using fictional children's literature." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1049.pdf.
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Miller, Cara M. "The path : stories." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1391233.
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This collection of short stories explores the depths of human emotions as seemingly unrelated characters in an Indiana community react to tragedies, including death, divorce, abuse, financial struggles, and assault. Each character experiences intense isolation and hopelessness, and some question the presence of a God who would allow such suffering. Not only are the protagonists' stories unique, but the characters themselves are diverse, encompassing different ages, genders, races, and class levels. Each story is linked by a cause-and-effect in which one person's reaction to grief creates tragedy in someone else's life. Therefore, the protagonist of one story becomes the antagonist of the next, and readers get a glimpse into both sides of the conflict. This chain reaction continues until the final story, in which the protagonist chooses to deal with his grief through faith and forgiveness, offering his attacker redemption and exemplifying the depth of God's love.Portrait of Jesus (1988) -- The deep end (2003) -- Wrongful death (2005) -- Double shift (2006) -- The fight (2006) -- The path (2006)
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Christianson, Leah Francesca. "Accidental Clarity." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1563295273607493.
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Brown, Tiara L. "BEAST OF YOUR ABSENCE." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/91.
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Santana, Regina de Oliveira. "...e eles viveram felizes até seu fim.: narrativas contemporâneas sobre a morte e o morrer na literatura infantil brasileira." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2014. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=8241.
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A proposta desta tese é analisar a abordagem dos temas da morte, do morrer, da perda e do luto pela literatura infantil brasileira contemporânea. Com base em livros disponibilizados no mercado (lojas físicas e virtuais), portanto acessíveis ao público, busca compreender como a morte é narrada em seus textos e ilustrações, conjunto que, na literatura infantil, assume papel essencial. Nesta trajetória, faz-se igualmente necessária a reflexão sobre a concepção infantilizada da infância, que, na hipermodernidade, culmina na fragilização de sua autonomia e na noção equivocada, dentre outras, de que crianças não são capazes de vivenciar dores intensas e devem ser poupadas do contato com a morte. A abordagem dos livros de literatura infantil sobre a morte torna ainda imprescindível colocar em discussão as possibilidades que a literatura proporciona para a compreensão do homem diante deste evento no contexto histórico e social hipermoderno. Para tanto, o percurso escolhido desconstrói a noção vigente sobre a literatura, na qual é considerada como elemento ilustrativo, reconhecendo-a como importante recurso para as ciências humanas e sociais. Para além desta proposta, cabe ainda considerar a literatura não a partir de uma perspectiva utilitarista (o ler é importante), nem tão pouco como um recurso meramente terapêutico, mas como perspectiva de ressignificação de experiências de vida, de conhecimento do humano, de abertura para o outro e de inserção social e política. Num movimento recíproco, lemos e somos lidos pelos textos e pelas imagens; construímos nossas narrativas ao mesmo tempo em que elas nos constroem. Neste sentido, nosso momento histórico é uma folha em branco que traz em si o potencial de escrevermos as próximas linhas, páginas, capítulos... até o fimThe present thesis aims at analyze the approach of the themes of death, dying, loss and grief in contemporary Brazilian children's literature. Based on books available on the market (shops "physical and virtual"), thus accessible to the public, it seeks to understand how death is narrated in their texts and illustrations, a set that, in children's literature, assumes a fundamental role. In this trajectory, it is also necessary to reflect on the "infantilized" conception of childhood that, in hypermodernity culminates in weakening of its autonomy and in the mistaken notion, among others, that children are not able to experience severe pain and should be spared the contact with death. The approach of the children's literature books about death makes it imperative to discuss about possibilities that literature provides for understanding man facing this event in the historical and hypermodern social context. Thus, the chosen course deconstructs the current notion about literature, which is considered as illustrative element, recognizing it as an important resource for the human and social sciences. Beyond this proposal, it is worth not to consider literature from an "utilitarian" perspective (the "reading is important"), nor merely as a therapeutic resource, but as a perspective for reframing life experiences, for knowledge of human, for openness to each other and for social and political inclusion. In a reciprocal movement, we read the texts and images and they read us; we build our narratives while they build us. In this sense, our historical moment is a blank sheet that carries the potential for us to write the next lines, pages, chapters ... until the end
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Jaynes, Michael A. "Don't Ever Stop." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275674470.
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Rönnqvist, Kulla Sofia. "Att ha ett hål i hjärtat och en pappa i fickan : En undersökning av barns sorg i barnlittertur." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-68955.
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As a teacher, I will come in contact with different students with different prior knowledge and experience. The purpose of this study was therefore to investigate how the grief after losing a parent is made out in four children's books, and to compare how or when these depictions correspond to the research on child grief management and processing. This to see how it can be used in my future profession. The theoretical starting points were Vygotsky's theories of learning as well as previous research in the topics of grief management in children and children's literature on the subject of death. The method used for this study was a qualitative study of documents, more particularly a text analysis on four separate children's books. In the result the importance of reading with the children is discovered, but also the importance of talking with them about difficult subjects for them to grow up and being able to handle future difficulties.Då jag ska arbeta som lärare kommer jag komma i kontakt med olika elever med olika förkunskaper och erfarenheter. Syftet med den här studien var därför att undersöka hur sorgen efter att ha förlorat en förälder framställs i fyra barnböcker samt att jämföra hur eller om dessa skildringar motsvarar forskningen om barns sorghantering och bearbetning. Detta för att se hur det kan användas i mitt framtida yrke. De teoretiska utgångspunkterna var Vygotskijs teorier om lärande samt tidigare forskning i ämnena sorghantering hos barn och barnlitteratur med tema döden. Metoden som användes till denna studie är en kvalitativ dokumentstudie, närmare bestämt en textanalys på fyra skilda barnböcker och i resultatet uppdagas vikten av att läsa med barnen men även vikten av att samtala med dem om svåra ämnen för att de ska kunna växa upp och kunna hantera svårigheter i framtiden.
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Wallander, Malin, and Marta Walter. "Hur föräldrar hanterar sin sorg efter förlusten av ett barn : En litteraturöversikt." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-6598.
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Bakgrund: Att förlora ett barn är det värsta tänkbara som kan ske i livet. Sorgen som kommer med förlusten är tid- och energikrävande. Många förlustdrabbade föräldrar klarar av hanteringen av sorgen vid förlusten, men många föräldrar gör det inte. Klarar föräldrarna inte av att hantera sorgen finns risken för en långdragen sorgereaktion/kronisk sorg. Detta kan leda till sjukskrivningar på grund av psykisk ohälsa. Det är därför viktigt att sjuksköterskan har kunskap om detta område för att kunna sätta in relevanta resurser. Syfte: Syftet var att utforska hur föräldrar hanterar sin sorg efter förlusten av ett barn. Metod: Litteraturöversikt är metoden som används för detta arbete. Databaser som användes för datainsamlingen var CINAHL Complete, PubMed, Nurse and Allied Health Database och PsychInfo. De tio vetenskapliga artiklarna som framkom i sökningarna har analyserats enligt Fribergs analysmetod där likheter och skillnader studerats i hur föräldrar hanterar sorgen efter förlusten av ett barn. Resultat: Resultatet redovisar de fyra teman som framkom i analysen av datan. 1) Stöd; 2) Bevara minnet av barnet; 3) Skapa ett nytt vardagsliv; 4) Att vila i sin tro: mening och acceptans. I dessa fyra teman redovisas ytterligare underteman för att förtydliga resultatet. Diskussion: I diskussionen hanteras resultatet med annan litteratur. Vikten av ett gott stöd och socialt nätverk vid en förlust. I diskussionen redogörs även symboler och ritualens påverkan på människan efter en förlust och meningen med att förlora en nära relation och att kunna acceptera döden. Sist redovisas genusskillnader i relation till hantering av sorg. I diskussionen implementeras teorin pendlingsmodellen av Stoebe och Schut.Background: The loss of a child is the most devastating bereavement a parent can experience. The grief that comes with the loss is both time and energy-consuming. Many parents can cope with the grief that arises, however some parents do not. If the bereaved parents cannot cope with the grief they run the risk of developing long-term/chronic grief. The mental illness caused by the sorrow can lead to absence from work for the bereaved parents. It is therefore important that nurses have a good understanding of this subject in order for them to be able to take the best course of action. Aim: The aim of this study is to explore how parents cope with their grief after the death of their child. Method: This study is a literature review. The databases that were used for the data collection were CINAHL Complete, PubMed, Nurse and Allied Health Database and PsycInfo. The ten scientific articles found in the searches performed were analyzed by using Friberg´s method of analysis where similarities and differences in how bereaved parents cope with the grief was examined Results: The result is presented in four themes that were discovered in the data analysis. 1) Support; 2) Embalm the memory of the child; 3) Create a new daily life; 4) Rest in belief: meaning and acceptance. Discussion: In the discussion, the result is compared to other literature. When experiencing bereavement the social support is significant. The effects of Symbols and rituals on bereaved people are presented, as is the meaning found in the loss of a close relationship and being able to accept death. Finally, gender differences in coping with grief are described. Dual Process model of coping by Stroebe and Schut is implemented in the discussion.
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Liljedal, Torgny, and Anders Roos. "Sjuksköterskors hantering av sin egen sorg i samband med patienters dödsfall : Litteraturöversikt." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för hälsa och välfärd, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-36835.
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Bakgrund: Sjuksköterskan är huvudansvarig för det patientnära omvårdnadsarbetetdär döden ibland är en oundviklig del av arbetet. Forskning visar att sjuksköterskankan uppleva sorg vid patienters dödsfall och denna behöver bearbetas. Behovet avsorghantering är större där sjuksköterskan byggt upp en relation med patient elleranhöriga och behovet är mindre om dödsfallen är förväntade. Obehandlad sorg kanleda till ohälsa hos sjuksköterskan fast det är oklart hur sorgen hanteras. Syfte: Attbeskriva hur sjuksköterskor hanterar sin egen sorg vid patienters dödsfall. Metod:Litteraturöversikt Resultat: I resultatet identifierades tre huvudteman: Hantera sorggenom distansering, hantera sorg med ritualer och hantera sorg i samtal. Dessahuvudteman beskriver sjuksköterskans hantering av egen sorg genom sju subteman:Genom att fokusera på arbetet, genom avståndstagande, genom tro, genomhandlingar, med kollegor, med närstående och med humor. Slutsats: Grunden i attlindra egen sorg för sjuksköterskan är samtalet med kollegor som måste gesutrymme till av arbetsgivaren och sjuksköterskan själv. Förutom samtalet användersjuksköterskan sig av olika ritualer som lindrar egen sorg där ritualerna grundar sigi praktisk handling och behöver nödvändigtvis inte ha ett ursprung i tro eller religion.Distansering är ytterligare ett sätt för sjuksköterskan att hantera sin egen sorg.Sjuksköterskan hanterar egen sorg i en process där samtal, ritualer och distanseringlöper parallellt med varandra.Background: The nurse has a main responsibility for leading the patient-centerednursing care, where death is an inevitable part of the work. Research shows that thenurse can experience grief when patients die and the grief must be processed. Theneed to process the grief is stronger if the nurse has built up a relationship with thepatient meanwhile the grief is weaker if the patient's death was expected. Nursesthat carry around grief that goes unprocessed can develop a diminishing health.Aim: To describe nurses’ coping of their own grief in connection with patients’death. Method: literature review. Result: In the result we could identify three maincategories: Coping with distance, coping with rituals and coping with conversation.The main categories are describing the nurses’ coping of their own grief with sevensubcategories: By focusing on the work, by distancing, with faith, with actions, withcolleges, with related parties and by using humor. Conclusion: The basics forcoping one’s own grief for the nurse is the conversation with colleges that must begiven space by the employer and the nurse herself. In addition to the conversation,the nurse uses various rituals that alleviate her own grief where the rituals are basedon practical action and do not necessarily have to have an origin in faith or religion.Distancing is another way for the nurse to cope with her own grief. The nurse copeswith her own grief in a process where conversations, rituals and distancing run inparallel with each other.
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Beutel, Andrew Leo. "THE REVOLT AGAINST MOURNING: WOOLF, JOYCE, FAULKNER, AND BEYOND." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/95.
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The Revolt against Mourning calls into question the widespread critical alignment of literary modernism with Freudian melancholia. Focusing instead on “mourning,” through close readings of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, James Joyce’s Ulysses, and William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, I demonstrate how their depictions of this notion overturn both its traditional and contemporary understandings. Whereas Freud conceives mourning as a psychic labor that the subject slowly and painfully carries out, Woolf, Joyce, and Faulkner convey it as a destabilizing, subversive, and transformative force to which the subject is radically passive. For Freud, mourning is a matter of severing one’s libidinal bond to the lost other and reinvesting the free libido in a new object. But these modernists show that this bond is not in fact something we have the power to sever. Rather, precisely because we must stay internally bound to the lost other, we are always exposed to being usurped and altered by its alterity. Indeed, what my readings disclose is that these novels end up being (dis)possessed by the spectral force unleashed in them. I argue, however, that each writer can be read as attempting a textual exorcism to free his or her novel from this force by invoking a vital, dynamic movement I call “life.” But although Woolf, Joyce, and Faulkner seek such liberation, their narrative experiments ultimately fail to achieve it. And yet, for that very reason, Mrs. Dalloway, Ulysses, and The Sound and the Fury further illuminate how mourning both precedes and exceeds our desire to master it and binds us to the others we lose, perhaps for the entirety of our lives.
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Grigg, Madeline J. "Dog Stars." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1555682074446507.
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Wood, Virginia Lee. ""Tigers Born in the Same Year": Novel and Critical Analysis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703374/.
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The dissertation consists of a critical analysis as well as the novel Tigers Born in the Same Year. The critical analysis interrogates the relationship between Asian American subject position in the United States, the history of Asian American literatures, and the conflict between inherited binary narratives and nuanced, specific story-telling. In order to move beyond such narratives as struggling with the label "model minority," wrestling between "Asian" and "American," and being "Asian enough," it is necessary to synthesize these literary and sociocultural inheritances with nuanced, specific lenses. From synthesis may arise a new space, one where rather than alienation and measuring up, there can be a sense of home. Tigers Born in the Same Year seeks language for social reckoning through personal discovery, representing a challenge to established narratives while recognizing the need to explore how they were built, the impacts they have, and what exists in the spaces beyond them.
In Tigers Born in the Same Year, when 13-year Minyoung Walsh witnesses the molestation of her sister by their older brother, she must make one of three choices: stay silent, fight back, or shout. Based on these three possibilities, three lives are braided together in the novel. All three Mins must reckon with who they have become and why following the illness and passing of their father. Whether or not the Mins in these lives are ultimately able to find a sense of home will largely depend on how they have been able to reckon with themselves, and on building a selfhood through they can live, grow, and seek the choices that will lead them forward. All the while, a fourth Min wanders in an endless bardo, between lives, seeking that same sense of rest, of wholeness, of knowing she has come to the right end of her path.
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Hemm, Ashley N. "“In my fiction I never say anything which is not absolutely true”: Reassessing Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Literary Realism." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2083.
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Despite her immense popularity in the nineteenth century, Constance Fenimore Woolson's reputation dwindled substantially in the decades which followed. While her works have been rediscovered over the past thirty years, they are often categorized as regionalist writing or, in the case of her penultimate novel, Jupiter Lights, melodrama. What many fail to consider, however, is that Woolson very much considered herself a realist author, and may have been remembered as such were it not for the influence of William Dean Howells and his peers, whose very narrow parameters for literary realism excluded Woolson, among others. Unfortunately, those parameters are still with us today, and exclude many authors whose realities do not conform to Howells’s original scope. In this thesis, I examine the biographical and historical context for Woolson’s lesser-known works, arguing that they demonstrate a type of empathetic realism which must not be ignored by current scholars of American literature.
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Gustafsson, Jonna. "Boksamtal för barn i sorg : Skildringar av döden i Roy och Alla döda små djur." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-72905.
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Genom att jämföra två bilderböcker undersöker det här arbetet hur döden skildras i barnlitteratur. Den kvalitativa litteraturanalysen fokuserar på hur text och bild skildrar döden och huvudkaraktärens sorg, samt vilka budskap illustrationerna förmedlar. Böckerna som undersöks är ROY av Gro Dahle och Svein Nyhus som publicerades 2009 samt Alla döda små djur av Ulf Nilsson och Eva Eriksson som publicerades 2006. Utifrån tidigare forskning om barn i sorg och sorgebearbetning redovisas hur man som pedagog/lärare kan möta dessa barn. Med hjälp av analysverktyg för text och bild presenteras vidare hur dessa böcker kan användas för att bearbeta frågor och funderingar som elever har. Sammanfattningsvis presenteras hur böckerna kan användas i undervisning, genom boksamtal.By comparing two picture books, this study examines how death is portrayed in children´s literature. The literature analysis focuses on how text and image depict death and the main characters grief, as well as what message the illustrations convey. The books that will be analysed are ROY by Gro Dahle and Svein Nyhus, which was published in 2009 and All dead small animals by Ulf Nilsson and Eva Eriksson, which was published in 2006. The study will show ways to teach children in grief, based on previous research on children in grief and sorrow processing. And with help from analysis tools, discusses how the books can be used in teaching, through book calls.
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Bengtsson, Helena, and IngaLill Hörnqvist. "De närståendes resa mot att släppa taget : En litteraturstudie om närståendes upplevelser inom den palliativa vården." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-4878.
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Background: People who is close to patients suffering from incurable diseases experiences both suffering and grief. It is hard to be there for someone and at the same time handle your own grief. This can create feeling of anxiety, stress and guilt. Problem: Near related persons might not accept the further loss of someone near, the hope remains until it is final. They may not know the whole width of the situation, not acknowledge to the patient or himself how it is going to end. Aim: The aim with the literature study was to describe close ones experiences of suffering and grief within the palliative care. Method: The study is a qualitative analysis of autobiographies written by people close to patients in the palliative care. Result: The study shows how close ones can be spared suffering and grief through kind treatment and empathic personnel. The result shows a great individual dissemination when feelings are to be worked trough and grief gets to the surface and is accepted. Conclusion: To be close to someone in the end of his or her life wakes hard and irrational feelings and thoughts in people. To handle your own experiences and feelings is difficult. To support these persons due to their individual needs is a crucial part in reducing there suffering.Bakgrund: Närstående till patienter med en obotlig sjukdom som leder till döden upplever både lidande och sorg. Att vara till för någon som skall dö samtidigt som man bearbetar sin egen sorg kan skapa känslor av oro, stress och skuldkänslor. Problem: Närstående vill kanske inte acceptera den kommande förlusten av någon som står en nära, hoppet finns kvar in i det sista. De kanske inte kan förstå hela vidden av situationen, inte erkänna för den sjuke eller sig själva hur det kommer att sluta. Syfte: Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva närståendes upplevelser av lidande och sorg inom den palliativa vården. Metod: Studien är en kvalitativ analys av självbiografier författade av närstående inom den palliativa vården. Resultat: Studien visar på hur närstående kan besparas lidande genom gott bemötande och empatisk personal. Resultatet visar på en stor individuell spridning när känslor skall bearbetas och sorg komma upp till ytan och accepteras. Slutsats: Att vara närstående till någon i livets slutskede väcker svåra och irrationella känslor och tankar hos människor. Att hantera sina egna upplevelser och känslor är svårt. Att stödja dessa personer utifrån individuella behov har en avgörande roll för reducering av deras lidande.
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Almquist, Karin Marie 1966. "Works of mourning: Francophone women's postcolonial fictions of trauma and loss." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8337.
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x, 215 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries under the call number: KNIGHT PQ149 .A56 2004This dissertation project seeks to connect the thematic concerns of Francophone women's post-colonial fiction to broader issues of breaking cycles of violence and resisting the negative effects of globalization. An important part of the study will be a discussion of the historical trend towards the mechanization of nature to account for an ideology of domination that the West has exported to its colonies. Borrowing especially from Carolyn Merchant and the Frankfurt School of critical theorists but also from feminist object relations theorist Jessica Benjamin, I trace masculine culture's will to mastery over a weaker other to a primal fear of chaotic nature and the omnipotent Mother. Violence that is currently directed at nature, women and children, and that is a central theme in the narratives I consider, has a long history. Colonization in all its forms stands out as the main characteristic of this history that will continue to repeat itself if left unexamined. My project demonstrates how these particular post-colonial novels engage with the past in such a way as to diffuse the internal mechanism of abusive power. There are two principle components of this engagement: one is the bringing-to-light of a buried history, personal and collective, that Western, masculine culture strives to repress. The other is the creation of an aesthetic that offers a means to mourn a traumatic past, thereby initiating a process of emotional and social healing. Both phenomena serve as political resistance to a hegemonic system based on denial of loss. In these novels I refer to this aesthetic of mourning as a "feminine symbolic of loss" to distinguish it from a traditional male canon of melancholy literature which instead capitalizes on loss for its own advancement. Their representations of oft-tabooed subjects attest to a refusal to comply with the cultural mandate of silence, driving a wedge into that mechanism of power that perpetuates itself by the disavowal and repression of loss.
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Fajardo, Tiffany L. "The World in Singing Made: David Markson's "Wittgenstein's Mistress"." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1861.
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In line with Wittgenstein's axiom that "what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest," this thesis aims to demonstrate how the gulf between analytic and continental philosophy can best be bridged through the mediation of art. The present thesis brings attention to Markson's work, lauded in the tradition of Faulkner, Joyce, and Lowry, as exemplary of the shift from modernity to postmodernity, wherein the human heart is not only in conflict with itself, but with the language out of which it is necessarily constituted. Markson limns the paradoxical condition of the subject severed from intersubjectivity, and affected not only by the grief of bereavement, which can be defined in Heideggarian terms as anxiety for the ontic negation of a being (i.e., death), but by loss, which I assert is the ontological ground for how Dasein encounters the nothing in anxiety proper.
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Kvick, Amanda. ""Är farmor en bebis med rynkor?" : En jämförande analys om hur döden framställs i tre barnböcker." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-68495.
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The purpose of this study is to see how death and the grief process is explained in three children's books with death as a motif. I will also describe how to look at children's literature as a teaching material when dealing with existential questions with the youngest children in school. The information I gathered from these books shows that death is often mentioned in a connection to an older person who dies from ageing or a parent who dies in the event of a fatal disease. In some of these books is life after death described with a religious belief, most from Christianity. They all mediates hope and a view of death as a continuation, meaning that something else is happening after your life as a human. I also come to the fact that the pictures mediate important messages and play a decisive part in the perception of the story. I concluded that all three books are useful when you are teaching children about death and grief. But they should be used for different purposes and in different contexts in the classroom.Syftet med denna studie är att se hur döden och sorgearbetet framställs i tre skönlitterära barnböcker med döden som tema. Jag kommer även att ta upp hur man kan se på barnlitteratur som ett undervisningsmaterial när man arbetar med livsfrågor med de yngsta barnen i skolan. Resultatet visar att döden beskrivs i form av att det är en äldre person som dör av ålder eller i samband med att en förälder dör av en sjukdom. I böckerna kan man även se kopplingar till religion och främst till kristendomen. Böckerna kan tänkas förmedla hopp om att döden är en fortsättning och att det sker något mer efter ditt liv som människa. Jag kommer även fram till att bilderna förmedlar viktiga budskap och har avgörande roll för hur man uppfattar berättelsen. Jag kommer fram till att samtliga böcker är användbara när man arbetar med döden och sorg med små barn, men att man bör använda böcker på olika sätt och i olika syften i undervisningen.
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Lonien, Dagmar [Verfasser], and Gerd [Akademischer Betreuer] Hurm. "Houses packed with Grief - Trauma and Home in three Novels by Toni Morrison / Dagmar Lonien ; Betreuer: Gerd Hurm." Trier : Universität Trier, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1197695974/34.
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Schniedermann, Wibke [Verfasser], Christa [Gutachter] Buschendorf, and Julika [Gutachter] Griem. "Masculine domination in the works of Henry James / Wibke Schniedermann ; Gutachter: Christa Buschendorf, Julika Griem." Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1177881578/34.
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Golden, Tasha L. "Push." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1345477184.
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Gries, Britta [Verfasser]. "Der Holocaust in deutschsprachigen publizistischen Diskursen : Eine sprachwissenschaftliche Analyse am Beispiel der Diskussion um den Roman «Die Wohlgesinnten» von Jonathan Littell / Britta Gries." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1137448008/34.
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Large, David John. "On to Genesis: Malcolm Lowry, Ultramarine and Consequential Modernism." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11576.
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This thesis explores the composition, revision and prose structure of Malcolm Lowry’s first novel Ultramarine (1933), examining Lowry’s shifting techniques of paraphrase, metaphrase and direct quotation across a variety of drafts and published versions of the novel. Lowry’s early and deliberate assumption of specific—if objectively misleading—personae in early letters to his desired interlocutors portray the fraught process of presenting oneself in a desired light; Ultramarine, I suggest, enacts the same process not just on the prosaic level of its plot, but more crucially for Lowry, as evidence that he had emerged as an author in his own right. Complicating this process, however, my analysis of Ultramarine demonstrates that the novel contains a profoundly greater accretion of voices than has previously been assumed. Among the dozens of newly identified source texts addressed in the thesis, I have discovered in the novel Lowry’s unacknowledged literal prose translations of no fewer than eleven poems by the Norwegian poet and writer Nordahl Grieg. In light of these discoveries, the thesis proposes a reconceptualised approach to Ultramarine criticism and Lowry studies in general, based first on accounting for the influence of the perceivable signifying factors within a work (the ‘phenotext’), though with a view towards a fuller and more balanced explanation of the work’s generative factors (the ‘genotext’). Lowry wrote much of Ultramarine under the tutelage of Conrad Aiken, whose appreciation for polyphony and structured prose I see as demonstrably influential on the younger writer. Aiken’s early literary criticism and the novel Blue Voyage (1927) bear down strongly upon the short stories and drafts that form the nascent text of Ultramarine, though I suggest Lowry shook off Aiken’s influence as he began to exert his desire for true individuation: for authorial ontogenesis. So too did Lowry write against the work of his second literary father figure, Nordahl Grieg, whose poems Lowry had adopted in Ultramarine as lyrical and seemingly authentic expressions of his protagonist’s struggle. Lowry’s second novel In Ballast to the White Sea (1934–6) presents as a particularly reflective attempt to write himself out of Grieg’s shadow. A congenitally modernist writer, Lowry draws heavily upon the works, words and voices of other writers and poets in the process of composing and revising his own texts. Lowry’s prose has an aesthetic appeal greater than the sum of its textual parts: though a text such as Ultramarine is not created from ‘whole cloth’, understanding the warp and weft of Lowry’s textual weaving is of no lesser value than the annotative work of recognising the disparate threads that make up the text itself. I argue in my final chapter that Lowry’s idiosyncratic brand of late modernist composition is best termed a ‘consequential modernism’. Lowry writes as a consequence of his high modernist predecessors, and the interwoven text that results—cited, recited and enciphered—is of particular consequence as much for his dexterity and originality as for the breadth and depth of his source material.