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Author:   Karen Weisman (Associate Professor of English and Associate of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   1.404kg
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9780199228133

ISBN 10:   0199228132
Pages:   738
Publication Date:   15 April 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTIONKaren Weisman: HISTORY 1: Gregory Nagy: Ancient Greek Elegy 2: Paul Allen Miller: 'What's Love Got to Do With It?': The Peculiar Story of Elegy in Rome 3: Edward L. Greenstein: Lamentation and Lament in the Hebrew Bible 4: Michael Roberts: Late Roman Elegy 5: Andy Orchard: Not What It Was: The World of Old English Elegy 6: Jamie Fumo: The Consolations of Philosophy: Later Medieval Elegy 7: William Watterson: Nation and History: The Emergence of the English Pastoral Elegy 8: Gordon Braden: Classical Love Elegy in the Renaissance (and After) 9: Lorna Clymer: The Funeral Elegy in Early Modern Britain: A Brief History 10: Helen Deutsch: Elegies in Country Churchyards: The Prospect Poem In and Around the Eighteenth Century 11: Jeffery Hammond: New World Frontiers: The American Puritan Elegy 12: Max Cavitch: American Constitutional Elegy 13: Stuart Curran: Romantic Elegiac Hybridity 14: Timothy Morton: The Dark Ecology of Elegy 15: Erik Gray: Victoria Dressed in Black: Poetry in An Elegiac Age 16: Vincent Sherry: In the Tense of Decadence: Modernist Elegy and the Great War 17: Patricia Rae: 'Between the Bullet and the Lie': British Elegy Between the Wars 18: Bonnie Costello: Fresh Woods: Elegy and Ecology Among the Ruins 19: Arnold Krupat: 'That the People Might Live': Notes Toward a Study of Native American Elegy 20: Sandra Gilbert: Elegies Upon the Dying 21: Ross Chambers: Attending to AIDS: Elegy's Rendez-Vous with Testimonial 22: Maeera Y. Shreiber: Kaddish: Jewish American Elegy Post -1945 23: R. Clifton Spargo: The Contemporary Anti-Elegy KNOWLEDGE, THEME AND PRACTICE 24: Lauren Shohet: Women's Elegy: Early Modern 25: Anne K. Mellor: 'Anguish No Cessation Knows': Elegy and the British Woman Poet 26: Anita Helle: Women's Elegies, 1834 - Present: Female Authorship and the Affective Politics of Grief 27: Lisa Schnell: 'Lett me Not Pyne for Poverty': Maternal Elegy in Early Modern England 28: Jonathan Goldberg: Between Men: Literary History and the Work of Mourning 29: Jonathan Crewe: Elegy in English Drama, 1590-1640 30: Catherine Burroughs: Post Coitum Triste: Elegiac Sexuality in Drama, 1700-1800, 31: Thomas Pfau: Mourning Modernity: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form 32: Jerrold E. Hogle: Elegy and the Gothic: The Common Grounds 33: Paul Coates: Moving Pictures at the Edge of Stasis: Elegy and the Elegiac in Film 34: Jahan Ramazani: Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Poetry of Mourning, 35: Eric Gidal: Museum Elegies 36: Kirk Savage: The War Memorial as Elegy 37: Elizabeth Helsinger: Grieving Images: Elegy and the Visual Arts 38: Josh Ellenbogen: On Photographic Elegy

Reviews

The sheer historical breadth and generic scope of the Handbook invite the reader to draw links between fields. Sally Connolly, Times Literary Supplement

a full and engaging history of how elegy works and might function. ... presents the general reader with a compass of different perspectives and subjects to which elegy speaks, as well as providing scholars with a valuable sourcebook of resources and references. * Emma Mason, Literature and Theology * [an] excellent volume ... In addition to providing the reader with a full and engaging history of how elegy works and might function, the volume also fulfills one of the primary objectives of Oxfords Handbook series: to offer pioneering scholarship in the subject addressed. * Emma Mason, Literature and Theology * The sheer historical breadth and generic scope of the Handbook invite the reader to draw links between fields. * Sally Connolly, Times Literary Supplement * Exploring the whole terrain from metrical variations in the elegiac couplet, cross-cultural or transatlantic transfigurations or the genre, through to elegiac representations in the visual arts including paintings and photographs, the volume gains exceptional academic breadth * Miwa Saito, Notes and Queries *

Author Information

Karen Weisman is Associate Professor of English and Associate of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Imageless Truths: Shelley's Poetic Fictions (University of Pennsylvania Press) and numerous articles and chapters on Romantic and post-Romantic poetry and culture. She is currently completing a study of nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish elegy.

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