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Author Scott, Jill, 1968-

Title A poetics of forgiveness : cultural responses to loss and wrongdoing / Jill Scott
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 259 pages) : illustrations
Contents Anger without Emotion: Why Revenge Works in Myth from The Iliad to Kill 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
Summary Despite recent interest in forgiveness and reconciliation, relatively little research has been conducted on forgiveness in literary studies. A Poetics of Forgiveness explores the profound links between creativity and forgiveness, and argues that creative production and interpretation can play a vital role in practices of forgiveness. Developing a model of "poetic forgiveness" through the work of Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Kelly Oliver, A Poetics of Forgiveness asks how forgiveness is expressed in literature and other art forms, and what creative works can bring to secular debates on forgiveness and conflict resolution. Jill Scott explores these questions in a wide variety of historical and cultural contexts, from Homer's Iliad to 9/11 novels, from postwar Germany to post-Apartheid South Africa, in canonical texts and in diverse media, including film, photography, and testimony
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Bachmann, Ingeborg.
Kafka, Franz.
SUBJECT Der Fall Franza. swd
Brief an den Vater. swd
Subject Forgiveness in literature.
Forgiveness in motion pictures.
Literary studies: general.
Sociology & anthropology.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian.
Literature.
Forgiveness in literature
Forgiveness in motion pictures
Verzeihung
Künste
Genre/Form Literatures
Literature.
Littérature.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230106246
0230106242
9781349379118
1349379115