The Poetics of Fidelity in Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (2015) and Nicholas Royle’s Quilt (2010)
Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Nicholas Royle’s Quilt fall within a literary tradition of contemporary elegy which turns to the poetics of anti-consolation. Porter’s novel presents mourners caught in the ambivalence of mourning, as they waver between normal mourning and melancholi...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2021-01-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/10729 |