Dying Modern : A Meditation on Elegy /

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In Dying Modern, renowned literary critic Diana Fuss argues that as death has been increasingly shunted off-stage, out of the public eye, poets have taken up the task of reckoning with dying, loss, absence, and grief.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fuss, Diana, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poetry, Modern.
Elegiac poetry, English.
Elegiac poetry, American.
Death in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Mort dans la litterature.
Poesie elegiaque anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Poetry, Modern > History and criticism.
Elegiac poetry, English > History and criticism.
Elegiac poetry, American > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Dying ... words : Poetry ; Consolation ; Defiance ; Banality ; Newness ; Lastness
  • Reviving ... corpses : Comic ; Religious ; Political ; Historical ; Literary ; Poetic
  • Surviving ... lovers : Loving ; Waiting ; Leaving ; Refusing ; Existing ; Surviving.

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