Abstract This article examines two modern women poets’ ambivalent engagements with Arabic elegy: the Iraqi Nazik al-Malaʾikah and Egyptian Iman Mersal. Although they wrote in different national contexts historical eras, utterly distinct political aesthetic projects, a close look at their verse reveals specter of bereft-yet-eloquent “ancient Arab woman” haunting respective poetic voices. Looking...

The lack of preparation for dealing with death and the absence of the loved one may lead to organic and psychological reactions that, due to the adaptive capacity of the individual to the period of mourning, may result in interference in feeding habits and consequently on the person's nutritional status. This article addresses the effects of recent mourning on feeding behavior, followed by the ...

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" shows many features associated with seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry in general, and with Donne's work in particular. Donne's contemporary, the English writer Izaak Walton, tells us the poem dates from 1611, when Donne, about to travel to France and Germany, wrote for his wife this valediction, or farewell speech. Like most poetry of Donne's time, it ...

The human being needs ties to grow and develop. When some of these ties are broken a period of great intensity arises that we call mourning. If the loss is radical and definitive, as in the case of death, all of the person's dimensions are affected (the physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioural, social and spiritual dimensions), to such an extent that the person can feel unable to overcome th...

Mourning constitutes an important human emotion, which might cause—among other things—major depressive symptoms when lasting for too long. To date, no study investigated whether mourning is related to specific psychophysiological activation patterns. Therefore, we examined physiological reactions induced by iconographic mourning-related stimuli in comparison neutral and attachment healthy adult...

Memorializing the dead through death rituals has inevitably permeated in online spaces. In particular, Facebook users have maximized platform to commemorate dead, thereby forming communal digital mourning. Hence, this paper investigates how Filipinos foster an community their practices of Filipino concept pakikipagkapwa[one-of-us] pakikiramay and pakikidalamhati. Guided by Virgilio Enriquez’s S...

Holy Cross College could expand its degree programs to o ffer fo u r -y e a r b a c h e l o r ’s d e g re e s in th e n e a r fu tu re , according to proposals currently being developed at the College. Pending accred ita t ion from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Holy Cross wants to o ffer a fouryear bachelor of arts degree in addition to the tw o -y ea r a s s o c i a t ...