Poetics of Forgiveness
Cultural Responses to Loss and Wrongdoing

This study argues that the work of forgiveness can facilitate productive mourning and that creative communication plays a critical role in negotiating forgiveness.

This study argues that the work of forgiveness can facilitate productive mourning and that creative communication plays a critical role in negotiating forgiveness.

Anger without Emotion: Why Revenge Works in Myth from The Iliad to Kill Bill
Mourning to the Limit: Forgiveness in H.D.'s The Gift
Rhetorical Revenge and Textual Redemption in Kafka's Letter to his Father
Rupture: Inappropriate Apology in Ingeborg Bachmann's The Book of Franza
Visualizing Reconciliation: Photography and Forgiveness in Germany and Rwanda
A Poetics of Ubuntu: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Metaphors of Forgiveness after 9/11