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Oxford Handbook of the Elegy

by Karen Weisman
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780199228133
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford
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  • Pages: 738
  • Original Price: GBP 105.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1407 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Poetry

Mourning and memorialization are at the very centre of literary culture. They take on forms deeply resonant of the sundry traditions of poetic elegy even when those elegiac conventions are displaced, concealed, or plainly unintentional. For all of its pervasiveness, however, the "elegy" remains remarkably ill-defined: sometimes used as a catch-all to denominate texts of a somber or pessimistic tone, sometimes as a marker for textual monumentalizing, and sometimes strictly as a sign of a lament for the dead. This Handbook is the single most comprehensive study of its subject. It provides both a historical survey and a thematic engagement with the relevant issues in elegy. It is responsive to a pressing need for clarification of the relevant issues, and to the exciting developments currently under way in elegy studies.

Karen Weisman is Associate Professor of English and Associate of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Imageless Truths: Shelley's Poetic Fictions (University of Pennsylvania Press) and numerous articles and chapters on Romantic and post-Romantic poetry and culture. She is currently completing a study of nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish elegy.

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