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Pages: 266
Authors: John B. Vickery
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-01 - Publisher: LSU Press

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Lamentation of death is the traditional elegiac focus, but in the twentieth century the elegy has become characterized as well by the mourning of other kinds of
The Prose Elegy
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Pages: 208
Authors: John B. Vickery
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-15 - Publisher: LSU Press

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Traditional English poetic elegists offer both writers and readers hope. After lamenting an individual's death and confronting the mortality of all living thing
Dying Modern
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Diana Fuss
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-12 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In Dying Modern, one of our foremost literary critics inspires new ways to read, write, and talk about poetry. Diana Fuss does so by identifying three distinct
Radical Elegies
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Authors: Eleanor Perry
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-21 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Scholarship has traditionally characterized elegy as a Eurocentric tradition – a genealogy spanning from ancient Greek pastoral poems via the “English elegy
Thomas Hardy’s Elegiac Prose and Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 177
Authors: Galia Benziman
Categories: Literary Criticism
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This book examines the transition from traditional to modern elegy through a close study of Thomas Hardy’s oeuvre and its commitment to mourning and remembran