The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy by Karen Weisman (English) Hardcover Book

by Karen Weisman

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The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy by Karen Weisman Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description The single most comprehensive study of elegy, this Handbook offers groundbreaking scholarship, historical breadth, and responds to recent exciting developments in elegy studies: the explosion in interest in elegies about AIDS, cancer, and war; the reconsideration of the role of women; and elegy s relation to ethics, philosophy, and theory. Publisher Description 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 sometimesstrictly 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 issuesin 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. Such a volume is especially timely, since in recent years there has been a veritable explosion in interest in elegies about AIDS, cancer, and war; various reconsiderations of

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2010
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780199228133
• Condition: Fine

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