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Author Fuss, Diana, 1960- author.

Title Dying modern : a meditation on elegy / Diana Fuss
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 150 pages)
Contents Dying ... words : Poetry ; Consolation ; Defiance ; Banality ; Newness ; Lastness -- Reviving ... corpses : Comic ; Religious ; Political ; Historical ; Literary ; Poetic -- Surviving ... lovers : Loving ; Waiting ; Leaving ; Refusing ; Existing ; Surviving
Summary In Dying Modern, 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Elegiac poetry, American -- History and criticism
Elegiac poetry, English -- History and criticism
Poetry, Modern -- History and criticism.
Death in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Death in literature
Elegiac poetry, American
Elegiac poetry, English
Poetry, Modern
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822397502
0822397501
9781299532748
1299532748