Elegiac Eyes

Author : Stacie Raucci
Publisher : Lang Classical Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781433113154
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elegiac Eyes written by Stacie Raucci and published by Lang Classical Studies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegiac Eyes is an in-depth examination of vision and spectacle in Roman love elegy. It approaches vision from the perspective of Roman cultural modes of viewing and locates its analysis in close textual readings of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. The paradoxical nature of the Roman eyes, which according to contemporary optical theories were able to penetrate and be penetrated, as well as the complex role of vision in society, provided the elegists with a productive canvas for their poems. By locating the elegists' visual games within their contemporary context, Elegiac Eyes demonstrates how the elegists were manipulating notions that were specifically Roman and familiar to their readership.

Author : Galia Benziman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137507136
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy’s Elegiac Prose and Poetry written by Galia Benziman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the transition from traditional to modern elegy through a close study of Thomas Hardy’s oeuvre and its commitment to mourning and remembrance. Hardy is usually read as an avowed elegist who writes against the collective forgetfulness typical of the late-Victorian era. But Hardy, as argued here, is dialectically implicated in the very cultural and psychological amnesia that he resists, as her book demonstrates by expanding the corpus of study beyond the spousal elegies (the “Poems of 1912-1913”) to include a wide variety of poems, novels and short stories that deal with bereavement and mourning. Locating the modern aspect of Hardy’s elegiac writing in this ambivalence and in the subversion of memory as unreliable, the book explores the textual moments at which Hardy challenges binary dichotomies such as forgetting vs. remembering, narcissism vs. unselfish commitment, grief vs. betrayal, the work of mourning vs. melancholia, presence vs. absence. The book's analysis allows us to relate Hardy’s elegiac poetics, and particularly his description of the mourner as a writer, to shifting late-Victorian conceptualizations of death, memory, art, science and gender relations.

Author : Abbie Findlay Potts
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elegiac Mode written by Abbie Findlay Potts and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1216 pages
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Download or read book Canadian written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John B. Vickery
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807133927
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prose Elegy written by John B. Vickery and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional English poetic elegists offer both writers and readers hope. After lamenting an individual's death and confronting the mortality of all living things, these poets seek consolation from religion, philosophy, or culture for the inevitability of death. The modern prose elegy, however, follows a different path -- one that determinedly questions all possible resolutions. In The Prose Elegy, John B. Vickery continues the work he began in The Modern Elegiac Temper, which examined the form in British and American poetry. He now considers the works of American and British fiction writers from Henry James to Joan Didion and reveals how the elegy expanded into prose and why it evolved so as to deal not only with death but also with other forms of loss. Focusing on individual works, Vickery explores both the forms the elegy takes throughout the twentieth century and the skeptical and uncertain attitudes of writers struggling to confront the trauma of loss. He offers detailed interpretations of the elegiac components in the works of novelists James Joyce, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway, each of whom forged a distinctive style, as well as chroniclers of a pervasive stoicism, such as Malcolm Lowry and Joan Didion, and writers as nuanced as Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Agee, and Ford Madox Ford.For these writers, Vickery shows, sorrow intrudes upon the personal, intellectual, and cultural aspects of daily living. By exploring how loss touches each of these areas, their books probe intellectual boundaries and discover new elegiac themes. Truman Capote and John Updike, for example, view memory -- which can disappear quickly -- as inherently sad. They therefore elegize memory. What consoles writers of the modern elegy changes too. In place of Milton's religion or Shelley's philosophy, twentieth-century writers also seek comfort from what also saddens them: family, marriage, and ideas of the self. In The Prose Elegy, Vickery convincingly demonstrates that the elegy remains a dominant mode throughout British and American literature -- with perhaps greater pertinence to our lives than ever before.

Author : John B. Vickery
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807131423
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Elegiac Temper written by John B. Vickery and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lamentation of death is the traditional elegiac focus, but in the twentieth century the elegy has become characterized as well by the mourning of other kinds of loss—those personal, familial, romantic, cultural, and philosophical privations and dispossessions that have so greatly shaped the modern sensibility. According to John B. Vickery, a profound elegiac temper is itself the major trait of twentieth-century culture, registered in attitudes ranging from regret, sorrow, confusion, anger, anxiety, doubt, and alienation to outright despair. He transforms our understanding of the elegy and its relation to modernism in The Modern Elegiac Temper. Vickery offers in-depth readings of a broad sampling of British and American poems written from World War I to the present. He considers works of overlooked poets such as Vernon Watkins, George Barker, and Edith Sitwell while also attending to canonical writers such as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, and Wallace Stevens. Taking a text-oriented rather than author- or theory-oriented approach, he discusses in turn the personal, love, cultural, and philosophical elegy and shows how war, the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and other major historical events influenced poets’ elegiac expressions. By suggesting ways in which the individual-centered concerns of the traditional elegy metamorphose under the depersonalizing lens of high modernism, Vickery reveals the modern elegy to be a finely calibrated instrument for reading and expressing, absorbing and reflecting, the modern temperament.

Author : Louis Michel Eilshemius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poet and Elegiac Poems written by Louis Michel Eilshemius and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Ely TAYLOR
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beauties of the Poets, Lyric and Elegiac, Selected from the Most Admired Authors by J. E. Taylor written by James Ely TAYLOR and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 596 pages
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Download or read book The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: