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The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies
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Product Description
The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies presents a renewed look at elegy as a long-standing tradition in the literature of loss, exploring recent shifts in the continuum of these memorial poems. This volume investigates the tensions arising in elegiac formulations of grief through detailed analyses of seminal poets, including Wordsworth, Keats, and Plath, using psychoanalytic precepts to reconceptualize consolation through poetic strategies of inner representation and what it might mean for personal and collective experiences of loss. Tracing the development of elegy beyond extant readings, this volume addresses contemporary constructs of mourning and their attendant polemics within the wider culture as extensions of elegiac longings and the tendency to refuse consolation and cede to the endlessness of grief. Furthermore, this book concludes that contemporary elegies break with conventions of poetic structure and expression; rather than the poets seeking resolution to grief through compensation, they often find themselves dwelling within the loss rather than externalizing and transcending it. The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies examines these developing psychoanalytic concepts pertaining to a poetics of loss, providing readers with a new appreciation of mourning culture and contemporary attitudes towards grief.
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Author
Judith Harris
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Routledge
Published
May 2023
Weight
418g
Dimensions
152 x 229 x 12 mm
ISBN
9781032009490
ISBN-10
1032009497
Eden Code
6087027
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Author/Creator: Judith Harris
ISBN: 9781032009490
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: May 2023
Weight: 418g
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Eden Code: 6087027
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