The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy. Edited by Karen Weisman
Critical interest in the elegy has adopted a newly urgent tone in the 21st century. Once suspected to be an outmoded and redundant genre by critics writing at the end of the previous century, elegy has resurfaced as a way into many current preoccupations within literary studies, not least the relati...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Literature and theology
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 123-126 |
| Review of: | The Oxford handbook of the elegy (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010) (Mason, Emma)
The Oxford handbook of the elegy (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2010) (Mason, Emma) |
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| Summary: | Critical interest in the elegy has adopted a newly urgent tone in the 21st century. Once suspected to be an outmoded and redundant genre by critics writing at the end of the previous century, elegy has resurfaced as a way into many current preoccupations within literary studies, not least the relationship between religion and literature. A return to questions of form and prosody, coupled with a renewed interest in questions of emotion, notably grief, bereavement and mourning, signals the elegy as a way into addressing ideas otherwise difficult to articulate and explore. Elegy has thus come to mean ‘elegiac’ for many critics, a word that covers a variety of forms and discourses—inclusive of the ‘prose elegy’—in addition to its primary sense as a poem of lament or funeral song. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frs009 |