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- The portrayal of grief in literature has evolved over time, reflecting societal attitudes and beliefs about death and mourning. In early literature, grief was often depicted as a heroic or noble emotion, with characters expressing their sorrow through grand gestures and eloquent speeches.
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Aug 8, 2018 · While scientists have documented the phenomena and manifestations following the loss of a loved one in quite some detail, poets can add to our understanding by portraying these vividly, bringing the feelings to life. In this article, I map the array of grief reactions identified in scientific investigations.
- Margaret Stroebe
- 2018
Nov 22, 2023 · Literature explores just how this loss bubbles and bursts within us, its different forms allowing writers the scope to dissect the idiosyncratic effects of grief, while readers can pour themselves into the characters and lyrics, finding shapes for their own experience of grief and sorrow.
- Caroline Hardaker
Nov 27, 2023 · Grief is defined as “very great sadness, especially at the death of someone” (Cambridge Dictionary). Studying grief entails digging into the very meaning of bereavement, its impact on human behavior and on relationships and interactions, and excavating its unbearable nature.
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- Miserable Memoirs and The Traumatic Canon
- Questioning Narrative Access in The Year of Magical Thinking
In the afterword to Terese Marie Mailhot’s 2018 memoir Heart Berries, the author responds to a question posed by Joan Naviyuk Kane about grief. “You’ve said elsewhere,” Kane asks, “[that] Indigenous identity is fixed in grief. Can you elaborate?” Mailhot answers: The answer hits at the intersection of a number of crucial and timely points of inquir...
In Unclaimed Experience (a text that both inaugurated trauma studies and frames many of its most impassioned conversations), Cathy Caruth defines trauma specifically as a phenomenon to which the survivor does not have direct access and so underscores the “cry of the witness” as the only available representation of the event (3). “Trauma is not loca...
Like Beloved, The Year of Magical Thinking lies at the very center of the “traumatic canon” of contemporary literature. Kathleen Woodward opens Statistical Panicby situating this memoir as a frame through which not only to understand her own grief but also to articulate the stakes of her scholarly project, to underscore the “signal importance of un...
- Tesla Schaeffer
- 2020
chapter two not only illustrates YA literature’s aesthetic reflection of mourning, but also its practical potential as a catalyst for readers to think of their own notions of grief, ultimately creating a dialogue between the text and readers about the nature of bereavement.
Aug 8, 2018 · The core symptoms of grief are described in the ICD-11 and DSM-5 manuals. The term “complicated grief” in the medical sense refers to a superimposed process that alters grief and modifies its...
