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A Poetics of Forgiveness

Cultural Responses to Loss and Wrongdoing

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  • © 2010

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  1. Jill Scott
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: A Poetics of Forgiveness

    • Jill Scott
    Pages 1-24

  3. Anger without Emotion: Revenge from the Iliad to Kill Bill

    • Jill Scott
    Pages 25-43

  4. Mourning to the Limit: Forgiveness in H.D.’s The Gift

    • Jill Scott
    Pages 45-64

  5. Phonemes of Forgiveness in Kafka’s Letter to His Father

    • Jill Scott
    Pages 65-87

  6. Inappropriate Apology in Ingeborg Bachmann’s The Book of Franza

    • Jill Scott
    Pages 89-112

  7. Photography and Forgiveness: Visualizing Reconciliation

    • Jill Scott
    Pages 113-140

  8. Poetic and Performative Forgiveness in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

    • Jill Scott
    Pages 141-165

  9. Metaphors of Forgiveness after 9/11

    • Jill Scott
    Pages 167-198

  10. Conclusion: Forgiveness as an Ethics of Everyday Life

    • Jill Scott
    Pages 199-203

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 205-259
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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.

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JILL SCOTT is Associate Professor of German at Queen's University, UK.

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