{"product_id":"dying-modern-9780822353751","title":"Dying Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDying Modern\u003c\/i\u003e, renowned literary critic Diana Fuss argues that as death has been increasingly shunted off-stage, out of the public eye, poets have taken up the task of reckoning with dying, loss, absence, and grief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Fuss] approaches variations on the form of elegy with such complexity and acumen, and provides much insight into the complexities of our relation to death and the enigma of our simultaneous proximity and avoidance. These are things, after all, about which it can be almost impossible to talk.” -- Diana Arterian * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“[An] elegant meditation. . . . Even Fuss admits that she is surprised that ‘her little book on elegy . . . [which] I thought was about dyig quietly evolved into a book about surviving. It is a pleasure to be surprised alongside her.” -- Sally Connolly * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e“This book is an erudite, beautifully written study of them. If you’re a lover of Emily Dickinson’s work or that of Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, or Richard Wilbur, you will want to read this book. If you teach literary criticism or simply love poetry, you will want to read Fuss’s book. Superb book.” -- Hope Leman * Critical Margins *\u003cbr\u003e“In a luminous, beautifully considered study of the modern elegy, Fuss (Princeton) demonstrates the ways that poets have creatively imagined modes of talking about the dead...Highly recommended.” -- D. A. Henningfeld * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“[Fuss] argues persuasively for the continued value of the consolatory elegy and examines “the ethical dimentions of the modern elegy.”... [A] concise, insightful, meditative book.” -- Barbara Kelly * Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin *\u003cbr\u003e\"An exceptionally lively, often glitteringly witty essay on the vagaries, contents, and discontents of nineteenth- and twentieth-century elegy, a genrewhose fate, in England and America, has been radically disrupted and even, sometimes, deformed by the cultural fate of modern death itself.\"  -- Sandra Gilbert * Literature and Medicine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Dying . . . Words 9\u003cbr\u003e poetry 10\u003cbr\u003e consolation 12\u003cbr\u003e defiance 20\u003cbr\u003e banality 24\u003cbr\u003e newness 31\u003cbr\u003e lastness 35\u003cbr\u003e 2. Reviving . . . Corpses 44\u003cbr\u003e comic 46\u003cbr\u003e religious 50\u003cbr\u003e political 57\u003cbr\u003e historical 61\u003cbr\u003e literary 67\u003cbr\u003e poetic 73\u003cbr\u003e 3. Surviving . . . Lovers 78\u003cbr\u003e loving 82\u003cbr\u003e waiting 86\u003cbr\u003e leaving 90\u003cbr\u003e refusing 95\u003cbr\u003e existing 98\u003cbr\u003e surviving 102\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 107\u003cbr\u003e Notes 113\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 131\u003cbr\u003e Index 141\u003cbr\u003e Copyright Acknowledgments 149","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406073569623,"sku":"9780822353751","price":71.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822353751.jpg?v=1730494435","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dying-modern-9780822353751","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}