Exploring Grief (eBook, PDF)

Towards a Sociology of Sorrow
Redaktion: Jacobsen, Michael Hviid; Petersen, Anders

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores grief as a social emotion. Thematically organised, it considers the historical changes in our understanding of grief, literary treatments of grief, contemporary forms of grief and grief as a perspective from which to engage in critique of society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429576935
• Artikelnr.: 57804826

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Towards a Sociology of Grief: Historical, Cultural and Social
Explorations of Grief as an Emotion Part 1: Grief and History 1. Grief in
Modern History: An Ongoing Evolution 2. Diversity in Human Grieving:
Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives 3. The Impact of he Two World
Wars on Cultures of Grieving: Grief in England, 1914-1980 Part 2: Grief and
Literature 4. Magical Thinking: Experiences of Grief and Mourning in George
Saunders' Lincoln In The Bardo and Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing 5. A
Story of Loss: Self-Narration of Grief and Public Feeling Rules 6. Writing
Grief: The Fraught Work of Mourning in Fiction Part 3: Forms of Grief 7.
The Denial of Grief: Reflections from a Decade of Anthropological Research
on Parental Bereavement and Child Death 8. Public Mourning: Displays of
Grief and Grievance 9. Grief in Human and Companion-Animal Loss, Bonding
and Dividual Pet-Personhood Part 4: Grief and Social Critique 10. The
Medicalisation of Grief 11. Suffocated Grief, Resilience and Survival Among
African-American Families 12. Grief in an Individualised Society: A
Critical Corrective to the Advancement of Diagnostic Culture