Title Elegy

Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (173 pages) Series The New Critical Idiom New critical idiom. Contents BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER 1: FORM WITHOUT FRONTIERS; CHAPTER 2: WHAT WAS ELEGY?; CHAPTER 3: THE WORK OF MOURNING; CHAPTER 4: 'THE NEEDS OF GHOSTS' MODERN ELEGY; CHAPTER 5: FEMALE ELEGISTS AND FEMINIST READERS; CHAPTER 6: AFTER MOURNING: VIRTUAL BODIES, APORIAS AND THE WORK OF DREAD; CHAPTER 7: ELEGY DIFFUSED, ELEGY REVIVED; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX Summary 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 and the different ways in which it is used Notes Print version record Subject Elegiac poetry, English. Grief in literature. Literary form. Literature. Elegiac poetry, English -- History Literary form -- History Death in literature. Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature. Mourning customs in literature. Literature, Modern. Literature, Modern Death in literature Elegiac poetry, English Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature Grief in literature Literary form Literature Mourning customs in literature Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203019993 0203019997 1281313580 9781281313584

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