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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Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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DQR Studies in the Lyric ;
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Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
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Call Number: DT727
- 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.