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Mournful welcome: Strangeness, tragic lamentation, and the poetics of modern hospitality.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mournful welcome: Strangeness, tragic lamentation, and the poetics of modern hospitality./
Author:	Reed, Valerie.
Description:	206 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Mary N. Layoun.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	Literature, Classical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3314345
ISBN:	9780549635314

Mournful welcome: Strangeness, tragic lamentation, and the poetics of modern hospitality.
Reed, Valerie.

Mournful welcome: Strangeness, tragic lamentation, and the poetics of modern hospitality. - 206 p.

Adviser: Mary N. Layoun.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2008.

Hospitality, as it has traditionally been understood, focuses less on welcoming strangers than on minimizing the risk they pose, insisting that the stranger cannot remain, as a stranger, in the community. Such a notion privileges a progression from the strange to the proper that is structured as a linear, teleological narrative---beginning with the stranger's arrival and ending, one way or another, with the rejection of strangeness itself. A more inclusive hospitality might instead acknowledge the necessity of the relationship between the community and the stranger, and its narrative might, accordingly, require a different kind of "poetics" that foregrounds the persistence of strangeness rather than its assimilation or expulsion.

ISBN: 9780549635314Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017779
Literature, Classical.

Mournful welcome: Strangeness, tragic lamentation, and the poetics of modern hospitality.
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520 $a Hospitality, as it has traditionally been understood, focuses less on welcoming strangers than on minimizing the risk they pose, insisting that the stranger cannot remain, as a stranger, in the community. Such a notion privileges a progression from the strange to the proper that is structured as a linear, teleological narrative---beginning with the stranger's arrival and ending, one way or another, with the rejection of strangeness itself. A more inclusive hospitality might instead acknowledge the necessity of the relationship between the community and the stranger, and its narrative might, accordingly, require a different kind of "poetics" that foregrounds the persistence of strangeness rather than its assimilation or expulsion.
520 $a This link between hospitality and poetics finds a striking parallel in the conceptualization of mourning. Both hospitality and mourning are modes of ethical and affective response that, from a certain perspective, pose problems of attachment that are resolved through narrative: the Freudian "work of mourning," in particular, is linked to a narrative progression that concludes with the cathartic dissolution of the relation to the lost other. The connection between poetics, hospitality, and mourning, however, can also offer an alternative to such models. I elaborate this idea by analyzing the continuation in four modern texts of the role played in classical Greek tragedy by lamentation, a mode of non-teleological poetic utterance linked to both strangeness and mourning.
520 $a The first chapter introduces this by examining the intersections of "barbarian" language and lamentation in Aeschylus' Hiketides and Euripides' Medea. The second chapter discusses the tension between presence and absence, self and other in Venus Khoury-Ghata's lyric sequence Elle dit and selected late poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann, suggesting that, for both poets, endless hospitality and endless mourning are intertwined. The novels considered in the third chapter, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Maryse Conde's Traversee de la mangrove, offer a different narrative paradigm focused on the absent stranger whose lamentation points, in turn, to other absent strangers. Each of the texts I discuss ultimately demonstrates the limitations of teleological narratives of relation and presents a different poetic mode, allowing for the preservation of strangeness.
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