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Book SynopsisHe argues for the particular capacity of literature to undertake an imaginative risk on behalf of another that seems the very ground of ethics itself.
Trade ReviewSpargo challenges traditional ideas about mourning. Choice 2005 Engaging and wide-ranging study. -- Patricia Phillippy Shakespeare Yearbook 2007
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Ethics Versus Morality
From Literature to Ethics, and Back Again
Chapter 1. Toward and Ethics of Mourning
Chapter 2. Mourning and Substitution in Hamlet
Chapter 3. Lyrical Economy and the Question of Alterity
Chapter 4. The Ethical Rhetoric of Anti-Elegy
Chapter 5. Wishful Reciprocity in Thomas Hardy's Poems of 1912–13
Chapter 6. The Bad Conscience of American Holocaust Elegy: The Example of Randall Jarrell
Chapter 7. The Holocaust She Walks In: Sylvia Plath and the Demise of Lyrical Selfhood
Notes
Index
