The Elegiac Mode
Author | : Abbie Findlay Potts |
Publisher | : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Elegiac poetry, English |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Abbie Findlay Potts |
Publisher | : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Elegiac poetry, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Abbie Findlay Potts |
Publisher | : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Elegiac poetry, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dan Latimer |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
This study examines the elegiac tradition as a succession of poetic responses to the problem posed to man by death and such consequent dilemmas as divine injustice, vitiated nature, immortality, and esthetic memory. Within this tradition, Milton and Rilke represent antithetical positions, the former, «uranian» poet cancelling tragic antinomies through transcendence of nature, the latter, «tellurian» poet vindicating nature and death by reviving an almost matriarchal consciousness excluding both tragic individualism and transcendence.
Author | : Peter M. Sacks |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1987-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780801834714 |
In an award winning book of literary scholarship, Sacks explores the functions as well as forms of convention and provides an interpretive study of the elegy as a genre. The English Elegy is an ambitious and humane book, an eloquent work on the poetry of mourning. (Poetry)
Author | : Margaret Alexiou |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Funeral rites and ceremonies |
ISBN | : 9780742507579 |
The only generic and diachronic study of learned and popular lament and its socio-cultural contexts throughout Greek tradition in which a great diversity of sources are integrated to offer a comprehensive and penetrating synthesis.
Author | : Anne L. Klinck |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780773522411 |
Bringing together some of the most important poetic texts of the Anglo-Saxon period, Anne Klinck presents the poems both as discrete entities and as members of an elegiac group, all inspired by the sense of separation from one's desire that is at the hear
Author | : Tiffany Austin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2019-12-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000737160 |
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white supremacist logic that has led to recent deaths of unarmed black men, women, and children. This volume combines scholarly and creative understandings of the elegy in order to discern how mourning feeds our political awareness in this dystopian time as writers attempt to see, hear, and say something in relation to the bodies of the dead as well as to living readers. Moreover, this book provides a model for how to productively interweave theoretical and deeply personal accounts to encourage discussions about art and activism that transgress disciplinary boundaries, as well as lines of race, gender, class, and nation.
Author | : Thea S. Thorsen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2013-11-21 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1107511747 |
Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and Roman backdrop for Latin love elegy, the individual Latin love elegists (both the canonical and the non-canonical), their poems and influence on writers in later times. The book is designed as an accessible introduction for the general reader interested in Latin love elegy and the history of love and lament in Western literature, as well as a collection of critically stimulating essays for students and scholars of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.
Author | : Galia Benziman |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2018-03-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137507136 |
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.
Author | : Antonina Harbus |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004488138 |
Ideas about the human mind are culturally specific and over time vary in form and prominence. The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry presents the first extensive exploration of Anglo-Saxon beliefs about the mind and how these views informed Old English poetry. It identifies in this poetry a particular cultural focus on the mental world and formulates a multivalent model of the mind behind it, as the seat of emotions, the site of temptation, the container of knowledge, and a heroic weapon. The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry treats a wide range of Old English literary genres (in the context of their Latin sources and analogues where applicable) in order to discover how ideas about the mind shape the narrative, didactic, and linguistic design of poetic discourse. Particular attention is paid to the rich and slippery vernacular vocabulary for the mind which suggests a special interest in the subject in Old English poetry. The book argues that Anglo-Saxon poets were acutely conscious of mental functions and perceived the psychological basis not only of the cognitive world, but also of the emotions and of the spiritual life.