The Prose Elegy
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The Prose Elegy
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Author : John B. Vickery
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2009-05-15
The Prose Elegy written by John B. Vickery and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Traditional English poetic elegists offer both writers and readers hope. After lamenting an individual's death and confronting the mortality of all living things, these poets seek consolation from religion, philosophy, or culture for the inevitability of death. The modern prose elegy, however, follows a different path -- one that determinedly questions all possible resolutions. In The Prose Elegy, John B. Vickery continues the work he began in The Modern Elegiac Temper, which examined the form in British and American poetry. He now considers the works of American and British fiction writers from Henry James to Joan Didion and reveals how the elegy expanded into prose and why it evolved so as to deal not only with death but also with other forms of loss. Focusing on individual works, Vickery explores both the forms the elegy takes throughout the twentieth century and the skeptical and uncertain attitudes of writers struggling to confront the trauma of loss. He offers detailed interpretations of the elegiac components in the works of novelists James Joyce, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway, each of whom forged a distinctive style, as well as chroniclers of a pervasive stoicism, such as Malcolm Lowry and Joan Didion, and writers as nuanced as Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Agee, and Ford Madox Ford.For these writers, Vickery shows, sorrow intrudes upon the personal, intellectual, and cultural aspects of daily living. By exploring how loss touches each of these areas, their books probe intellectual boundaries and discover new elegiac themes. Truman Capote and John Updike, for example, view memory -- which can disappear quickly -- as inherently sad. They therefore elegize memory. What consoles writers of the modern elegy changes too. In place of Milton's religion or Shelley's philosophy, twentieth-century writers also seek comfort from what also saddens them: family, marriage, and ideas of the self. In The Prose Elegy, Vickery convincingly demonstrates that the elegy remains a dominant mode throughout British and American literature -- with perhaps greater pertinence to our lives than ever before.
Wren S Elegy And Other Works
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
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The Elegy On Hats
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Author : Stephen Berg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Elegy On Hats written by Stephen Berg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Poetry categories.
Berg's extraordinary gifts are devoted, in The Elegy on Hats, to poems mysteriously informed by the work of Charles Baudelaire (the great French master of the prose poem). In Still Unilluminated I..., poems reinvent the work of Arthur Rimbaud. These poems come out of Berg's life and are placed in twenty-first century America, not nineteenth-century Paris. His masters' influence has reminded some of Joyce's use of Homer in Ulysses. That is quite a mouthful, but it is earned. Where Joyce's Ulysses is set in Dublin, Berg is always an American, urban revolutionary. He makes poetry out of the ordinary, commonplace and material, out of which his sexual and religious visions are passionately made. Stated musically, his poems are played on the cello, accompanied by brass, with wrong note effects that one hears sometimes in Stravinsky's Rites of Spring, with a touch of hip-hop.
Wren S Elegy A Prose Poetry The Pagoda An Epic Other Poems
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Author : Youn Sook Moh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Wren S Elegy A Prose Poetry The Pagoda An Epic Other Poems written by Youn Sook Moh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
Thomas Hardy S Elegiac Prose And Poetry
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Author : Galia Benziman
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-03-28
Thomas Hardy S Elegiac Prose And Poetry written by Galia Benziman and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 remembrance. Hardy is usually read as an avowed elegist who writes against the collective forgetfulness typical of the late-Victorian era. But Hardy, as argued here, is dialectically implicated in the very cultural and psychological amnesia that he resists, as her book demonstrates by expanding the corpus of study beyond the spousal elegies (the “Poems of 1912-1913”) to include a wide variety of poems, novels and short stories that deal with bereavement and mourning. Locating the modern aspect of Hardy’s elegiac writing in this ambivalence and in the subversion of memory as unreliable, the book explores the textual moments at which Hardy challenges binary dichotomies such as forgetting vs. remembering, narcissism vs. unselfish commitment, grief vs. betrayal, the work of mourning vs. melancholia, presence vs. absence. The book's analysis allows us to relate Hardy’s elegiac poetics, and particularly his description of the mourner as a writer, to shifting late-Victorian conceptualizations of death, memory, art, science and gender relations.
Elegy
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Author : David Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-03-10
Elegy written by David Kennedy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Grief and mourning are generally considered to be private, yet universal instincts. But in a media age of televised funerals and visible bereavement, elegies are increasingly significant and open to public scrutiny. Providing an overview of the history of the term and the different ways in which it is used, David Kennedy: outlines the origins of elegy, and the characteristics of the genre examines the psychology and cultural background underlying works of mourning explores how the modern elegy has evolved, and how it differs from ‘canonical elegy’, also looking at female elegists and feminist readings considers the elegy in the light of writing by theorists such as Jacques Derrida and Catherine Waldby looks at the elegy in contemporary writing, and particularly at how it has emerged and been adapted as a response to terrorist attacks such as 9/11. Emphasising and explaining the significance of elegy today, this illuminating guide to an emotive literary genre will be of interest to students of literature, media and culture.
Elegy For A Butterfly
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Author : Neal Sehgal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-02-05
Elegy For A Butterfly written by Neal Sehgal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-05 with Poetry categories.
ELEGY FOR A BUTTERFLY is a collection of poetry, prose, and photography that is woven together to tell a story of love, loss, and letting go.
The North S Last Boys In Blue
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Author : Jay S. Hoar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-12-01
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The South S Last Boys In Gray
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Author : Jay S. Hoar
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1986
The South S Last Boys In Gray written by Jay S. Hoar and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Social Science categories.
A sub-study of Sunset and Dusk of the Blue and Gray.
The Poet Without A Name
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Author : Henry Weinfield
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1991
The Poet Without A Name written by Henry Weinfield and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Literary Criticism categories.
Henry Weinfield offers a new reading not only of the Elegy itself but also of its place in English literary history. His central argument is that in Gray’s Elegy the thematic constellation of poverty, anonymity, alienation, and unfulfilled potential—or what Weinfield calls the "problem of history"—is fully articulated for the first time, and that, as a result, the Elegy represents an important turning-point in the history of English poetry.