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.
General
| Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Judith Harris
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
170 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-200949-0 |
| Categories: |
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General
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| LSN: |
1-03-200949-7 |
| Barcode: |
9781032009490 |
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