Grief Memoirs - Cultural, Supportive, and Therapeutic Significance

Grief Memoirs bridges the gap between literary studies and psychology to provide an in-depth examination of contemporary grief memoirs, evaluating their literary, cultural, therapeutic, and educational functions and benefits for bereaved and non-bereaved individuals.

List of contents

Introduction
1. The Grief Memoir: Meditations upon the Genre
2. Grief Witnessing in Research and Grief Memoirs
3. Grief Witnessing through Grief Memoirs: Survey
4. Bibliotherapy: Existing Research
5. Bibliotherapy in Practice: Survey and Beyond
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C

About the author

Katarzyna A. Mäecka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of North American Literature and Culture at the University of Lodz, Poland. Dr. Mäecka is the author of numerous publications on death and grief in literature. She has been awarded three international scholarships to conduct her research on loss and bereavement: the interdisciplinary research grant by the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna to study the bibliotherapeutic aspects of literature in work with grieving children; the Fulbright Senior Award Scholarship for her project on the use of modern bereavement memoirs in grief therapy; and the Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship to study the grief witnessing, bibliotherapeutic, and educational aspects of grief memoirs. She is currently working on her new project exploring the bibliotherapeutic application of grief narratives in the clinical setting and their use in the education of future helping professionals.

Summary

Grief Memoirs bridges the gap between literary studies and psychology to provide an in-depth examination of contemporary grief memoirs, evaluating their literary, cultural, therapeutic, and educational functions and benefits for bereaved and non-bereaved individuals.

Product details

• Authors: Katarzyna A. Malecka, Katarzyna A. Małecka
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9780367623203
• ISBN: 978-0-367-62320-3
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Health psychology, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000