| Description |
ix, 269 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. One The Daughter's Way -- Introduction Who Could Not Sing: Elegy and Its (Female) Discontents -- 1.Elegy and Authority: The Daughter's Way -- pt. Two Daughters of Jove, Daughters of Job Canadian Modernism's Bloody-Minded Women -- 2.Jove's Daughter: Dorothy Livesay's Elegiac Daughteronomy -- 3."So Much Militia Routed in the Man": P. K. Page's Military Fathers -- 4."Absence, Havoc": Jay Macpherson's Rebellious Daughters -- pt. Three Differently Conceived Nations The Mourner's Journey -- 5."Do What You Are Good At": Margaret Atwood's Authorizing Elegies -- 6.The Pilgrim and the Riddle: Anne Carson's "The Anthropology of Water" -- 7.Gateway Politics, Grief Poetics: West Meets West in Kristjana Gunnars's Zero Hour -- pt. Four Furies and Filles de la Sagesse Language and Difference at Century's End -- 8.Signature, Inheritance, Inquiry: Lola Lemire Tostevin's Cartouches -- 9.Elegy of Refusal: Erin Moure's Furious |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index |
| Notes |
Issued also in electronic format |
| Subject |
Death in literature.
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Fathers and daughters in literature.
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Fathers in literature.
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Grief in literature.
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Loss (Psychology) in literature.
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Mourning customs in literature.
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Paternalism in literature.
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| LC no. |
2012451639 |
| ISBN |
1554583624 (hbk.) |
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9781554583621 (hbk.) |
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