Mourning and memorialization are at the very centre of literary culture. Theytake on forms deeply resonant of the sundry traditions of poetic elegy even when those elegiac conventions are displaced, concealed, or plainly unintentional. For all of its pervasiveness, however, the "elegy" remains remarkably ill-defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimesstrictly as a sign of a lament for the dead. This Handbook is the single mostcomprehensive study of its subject. It provides both a historical survey and a thematic engagement with the relevant issues in elegy. It is responsive to apressing need for clarification of the relevant issues, and to the exciting developments currently under way in elegy studies. Such a volume is especially timely, since in recent years there has been a veritable explosion in interestin elegies about AIDS, cancer, and war; various reconsiderations of the role of women in the history of elegiac writing; and readings of elegy in relation to ethics, philosophy and theory, and political structure. With 38 chapters byleading specialists, ranging from Gregory Nagy's reconsideration of Ancient Greek elegy through Stuart Curran's novel engagement with Romantic elegiac hybridity, and on to Elizabeth Helsinger's consideration of elegy and painting, this Handbook offers groundbreaking scholarship and remarkable historical breadth. INDICE: INTRODUCTION; HISTORY; 1. Ancient Greek Elegy; 2. 'What's Love Gotto Do With It?': The Peculiar Story of Elegy in Rome; 3. Lamentation and Lament in the Hebrew Bible; 4. Late Roman Elegy; 5. Not What It Was: The World of Old English Elegy; 6. The Consolations of Philosophy: Later Medieval Elegy; 7.Nation and History: The Emergence of the English Pastoral Elegy; 8. ClassicalLove Elegy in the Renaissance (and After); 9. The Funeral Elegy in Early Modern Britain: A Brief History; 10. Elegies in Country Churchyards: The Prospect Poem In and Around the Eighteenth Century; 11. New World Frontiers: The American Puritan Elegy; 12. American Constitutional Elegy; 13. Romantic Elegiac Hybridity; 14. The Dark Ecology of Elegy; 15. Victoria Dressed in Black: Poetry inAn Elegiac Age; 16. In the Tense of Decadence: Modernist Elegy and the Great War; 17. 'Between the Bullet and the Lie': British Elegy Between the Wars; 18.Fresh Woods: Elegy and Ecology Among the Ruins; 19. 'That the People Might Live': Notes Toward a Study of Native American Elegy; 20. Elegies Upon the Dying; 21. Attending to AIDS: Elegy's Rendez-Vous with Testimonial; 22. Kaddish: Jewish American Elegy Post -1945; 23. The Contemporary Anti-Elegy; KNOWLEDGE, THEME AND PRACTICE; 24. Women's Elegy: Early Modern; 25. 'Anguish No Cessation Knows': Elegy and the British Woman Poet; 26. Women's Elegies, 1834 - Present: Female Authorship and the Affective Politics of Grief; 27. 'Lett me Not Pyne for Poverty': Maternal Elegy in Early Modern England; 28. Between Men: LiteraryHistory and the Work of Mourning; 29. Elegy in English Drama, 1590-1640; 30. Post Coitum Triste: Elegiac Sexuality in Drama, 1700-1800,; 31. Mourning Modernity: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form; 32. Elegy and the Gothic: The Common Grounds; 33. Moving Pictures at the Edge of Stasis: Elegyand the Elegiac in Film; 34. Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Poetry ofMourning,; 35. Museum Elegies; 36. The War Memorial as Elegy; 37. Grieving Images: Elegy and the Visual Arts; 38. On Photographic Elegy
- ISBN: 978-0-19-922813-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 736
- Fecha Publicación: 30/04/2010
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