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"All Is Well": Victorian Mourning Aesthetics and the Poetics of Consolation

Holloway, Tamara C. (University of Oregon, 2011-12)

In this study, I examine the various techniques used by poets to provide consolation. With Tennyson's In Memoriam, I explore the relationship between formal and thematic consolation, i.e., the ways in which the use of ...
"I shall weep though I be stone": Grief and Language in Andrew Marvell

Henrichs, Amanda K. (2008)

Through the centuries, critics have struggled with the poetry of Andrew Marvell, using diverse frameworks to examine his work. In this thesis, three poems – “Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings,” “Mourning,” and “The Nymph ...
New American Ways of Death: Anxiety, Mourning, and Commemoration in American Culture

Dobler, Robert (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

The experiences of grief and mourning in response to loss are fundamentally transformative to the self-identity of the mourner, necessitating an array of ritualized behaviors at the communal and individual levels. These ...
Works of mourning: Francophone women's postcolonial fictions of trauma and loss

Almquist, Karin Marie, 1966- (University of Oregon, 2004-12)

This 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 ...