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Beyond consolation : death, sexuality, and the changing shapes of elegy /

"Using as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they reflect historical changes in the politics of gender and sexuality. Although her focus is primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zeiger, Melissa F. (Melissa Fran), 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Colección:Reading women writing.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Unwriting Orpheus: Swinburne's "Ave atque Vale" and the "New" Elegy
  • 2. "Woman Much Missed": Writing Eurydice in Hardy's Poems of 1912-13
  • 3. The Fading of Orpheus: Women's Elegies
  • 4. Avatars of Eurydice: John Berryman's Dream Songs
  • 5. Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: AIDS Elegies
  • 6. Against Elegies: Women's Breast Cancer Poems
  • Afterwords: Why Elegies?