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In a media age of televised funerals and visible bereavement, elegies are increasingly significant and open to public scrutiny. David Kennedy provides an overview of the history of the term, outlining its characteristics, cultural background and theoretical reception in the twentieth-century.



Table of Contents

1. Form without frontiers 2. What was elegy? 3. The work of mourning 4. The needs of ghosts: modern elegy 5. Female elegists and feminist readers 6. After mourning: virtual bodies, aporias and the work of dread 7. Elegy diffused, elegy revived

Elegy The New Critical Idiom

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
      Publication Date: 8/21/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780415367776, 978-0415367776
      ISBN10: 0415367778
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In a media age of televised funerals and visible bereavement, elegies are increasingly significant and open to public scrutiny. David Kennedy provides an overview of the history of the term, outlining its characteristics, cultural background and theoretical reception in the twentieth-century.



      Table of Contents

      1. Form without frontiers 2. What was elegy? 3. The work of mourning 4. The needs of ghosts: modern elegy 5. Female elegists and feminist readers 6. After mourning: virtual bodies, aporias and the work of dread 7. Elegy diffused, elegy revived

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