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)

Format: eBook

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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Call Number: DT727

Table of Contents:
  • 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.