The Contemporary Elegy in World Literature /

This volume navigates the entangled expressions of mourning across languages, cultures, and traditions, shedding light on the evolving shapes and discourses of contemporary elegy in world literature. By adopting a transnational approach, this collection offers a much needed conceptualization of what...

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Other Authors: Bardazzi, Adele (Editor), Binetti, Roberto (Editor), Culler, Jonathan (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: DQR Studies in the Lyric ; 1.
Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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505 0 |t Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Contemporary Entangled Elegy --   Adele Bardazzi, Roberto Binetti, and Jonathan Culler -- Part1 Resistance -- 1 The Elegiac Transnational -- Chinese Poetry, Sutured Absence, World Literature --   Nick Admussen -- 2 Impossible Elegies -- Resisting the Paternal --   Adele Bardazzi -- 3 Mourning Nature: The Elegiac Mode and the Not Yet Lost -- Re-reading Juliana Spahr's "Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache" --   Francesco Giusti -- 4 Elegiac Subjunctive, or Secular Variations on Posthumous Personhood --   David Sherman -- Part2 Revision -- 5 Shamanic Chant and Contemporary Korean Elegy -- Kim Hyesoon's "Autobiography of Death" --   Ivanna Sang Een Yi -- 6 Self-Elegy and the Making of Lyric Communities --   Roberto Binetti -- 7 Durs Grünbein's Elegy for Dresden --   Karen Leeder -- 8 Re c(h)ording Elegy -- Transformative Mourning in the Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña --   Rachel Elizabeth Robinson -- Part3 Re-mapping -- 9 The Poetics of Pain -- Lament and Elegy in Modern Greek Literature --   Gail Holst-Warhaft -- 10 Mourning Women -- Two Modern Takes on Arabic Elegy --   Emily Drumsta -- 11 Death as a Natural Presence and as a Monster -- The Elegy in African Textual Traditions with a Focus on Swahili Verbal Art --   Roberto Gaudioso -- 12 Resisting Annihilation -- The AIDS Anthology Poem and Collective Melancholia --   Brandon Menke -- 13 A Global Web of Elegies --   Jahan Ramazani -- Index. 
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