The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 April 2010
- ISBN 9780199228133
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages738 pages
- Size 252x178x45 mm
- Weight 1404 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 28 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
The single most comprehensive study of elegy, this Handbook offers groundbreaking scholarship, historical breadth, and responds to recent exciting developments in elegy studies: the explosion in interest in elegies about AIDS, cancer, and war; the reconsideration of the role of women; and elegy's relation to ethics, philosophy, and theory.
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Mourning and memorialization are at the very centre of literary culture. They take 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 sometimes strictly as a sign of a lament for the dead. This Handbook is the single most comprehensive study of its subject. It provides both a historical survey and a thematic engagement with the relevant issues in elegy. It is responsive to a pressing 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 interest in 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 by leading 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.
Exploring the whole terrain from metrical variations in the elegiac couplet, cross-cultural or transatlantic transfigurations or the genre, through to elegiac representations in the visual arts including paintings and photographs, the volume gains exceptional academic breadth
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
HISTORY
Ancient Greek Elegy
'What's Love Got to Do With It?': The Peculiar Story of Elegy in Rome
Lamentation and Lament in the Hebrew Bible
Late Roman Elegy
Not What It Was: The World of Old English Elegy
The Consolations of Philosophy: Later Medieval Elegy
Nation and History: The Emergence of the English Pastoral Elegy
Classical Love Elegy in the Renaissance (and After)
The Funeral Elegy in Early Modern Britain: A Brief History
Elegies in Country Churchyards: The Prospect Poem In and Around the Eighteenth Century
New World Frontiers: The American Puritan Elegy
American Constitutional Elegy
Romantic Elegiac Hybridity
The Dark Ecology of Elegy
Victoria Dressed in Black: Poetry in An Elegiac Age
In the Tense of Decadence: Modernist Elegy and the Great War
'Between the Bullet and the Lie': British Elegy Between the Wars
Fresh Woods: Elegy and Ecology Among the Ruins
'That the People Might Live': Notes Toward a Study of Native American Elegy
Elegies Upon the Dying
Attending to AIDS: Elegy's Rendez-Vous with Testimonial
Kaddish: Jewish American Elegy Post -1945
The Contemporary Anti-Elegy
KNOWLEDGE, THEME AND PRACTICE
Women's Elegy: Early Modern
'Anguish No Cessation Knows': Elegy and the British Woman Poet
Women's Elegies, 1834 - Present: Female Authorship and the Affective Politics of Grief
'Lett me Not Pyne for Poverty': Maternal Elegy in Early Modern England
Between Men: Literary History and the Work of Mourning
Elegy in English Drama, 1590-1640
Post Coitum Triste: Elegiac Sexuality in Drama, 1700-1800,
Mourning Modernity: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form
Elegy and the Gothic: The Common Grounds
Moving Pictures at the Edge of Stasis: Elegy and the Elegiac in Film
Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Poetry of Mourning,
Museum Elegies
The War Memorial as Elegy
Grieving Images: Elegy and the Visual Arts
On Photographic Elegy
