Title The daughter's way : Canadian women's paternal elegies / Tanis MacDonald

Published Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2012] ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (280 pages) Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part One: The Daughterâ€?s Way -- Introduction: Who Could Not Sing: Elegy and Its (Female) Discontents -- 1 Elegy and Authority: The Daughterâ€?s Way -- Part Two: Daughters of Jove, Daughters of Job: Canadian Modernismâ€?s Bloody-Minded Women -- 2 Joveâ€?s Daughter: Dorothy Livesayâ€?s Elegiac Daughteronomy -- 3 “So Much Militia Routed in the Manâ€?: P.K. Pageâ€?s Military Fathers -- 4 “Absence, Havocâ€?: Jay Macphersonâ€?s Rebellious Daughters -- Part Three: Differently Conceived Nations: The Mournerâ€?s Journey 5 “Do What You Are Good Atâ€?: Margaret Atwoodâ€?s Authorizing Elegies6 The Pilgrim and the Riddle: Anne Carsonâ€?s “The Anthropology of Waterâ€? -- 7 Gateway Politics, Grief Poetics: West Meets West in Kristjana Gunnarsâ€?s Zero Hour -- Part Four: Furies and Filles de la Sagesse: Language and Difference at Centuryâ€?s End -- 8 Signature, Inheritance, Inquiry: Lola Lemire Tostevinâ€?s Cartouches -- 9 Elegy of Refusal: Erin Mouréâ€?s Furious -- Conclusion: From the Water -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J Kl -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- y -- z Summary "The Daughter's Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women's elegies with a special emphasis on the father's death as a literary and political watershed. The book examines the work of Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Jay Macpherson, Margaret Atwood, Kristjana Gunnars, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Anne Carson, and Erin Mouré as elegiac daughteronomies - literary artifacts of mourning that grow from the poets' investigation into the function and limitations of elegiac convention. Some poets treat the father as a metaphor for socio-political power, while others explore more personal iterations of loss, but all the poets in The Daughter's Way seek to redefine daughterly duty in a contemporary context by challenging elegiac tradition through questions of genre and gender. Beginning with psychoanalytical theories of filiation, inheritance, and mourning as they are complicated by feminist challenges to theories of kinship and citizenship, The Daughter's Way debates the efficacy of the literary "work of mourning" in twentieth-century Canadian poetry. By investigating the way a daughter's filial piety performs and sometimes reconfigures such work, and situating melancholia as a creative force in women's elegies, the book considers how elegies inquire into the rhetoric of mourning as it is complicated by father-daughter kinship"--Publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Death in literature. Fathers in literature. Loss (Psychology) in literature. Grief in literature. Mourning customs in literature. Fathers and daughters in literature. Paternalism in literature. Canadian poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. Canadian poetry Death in literature Fathers and daughters in literature Fathers in literature Grief in literature Loss (Psychology) in literature Mourning customs in literature Paternalism in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781554584017 1554584019

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