In a media age of televised funerals and visible bereavement, elegies are increasingly significant and open to public scrutiny. David Kennedy provides an overview of the history of the term, outlining its characteristics, cultural background and theoretical reception in the twentieth-century.
In a media age of televised funerals and visible bereavement, elegies are increasingly significant and open to public scrutiny. David Kennedy provides an overview of the history of the term, outlining its characteristics, cultural background and theoretical reception in the twentieth-century.
David Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull. He is the editor of Necessary Steps: Poetry, Elegy, Walking, Spirit; and publishes widely on contemporary poetry.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Form without frontiers 2. What was elegy? 3. The work of mourning 4. The needs of ghosts: modern elegy 5. Female elegists and feminist readers 6. After mourning: virtual bodies, aporias and the work of dread 7. Elegy diffused, elegy revived
1. Form without frontiers 2. What was elegy? 3. The work of mourning 4. The needs of ghosts: modern elegy 5. Female elegists and feminist readers 6. After mourning: virtual bodies, aporias and the work of dread 7. Elegy diffused, elegy revived
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