Beyond Consolation
Subtitle: Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy (Reading Women Writing)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: January 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780801484414
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Women Authors; Poetry; Literary Criticism; Semiotics & Theory; Women's Studies - General; Death in literature; Elegiac poetry; History and criticism; Sex in literature
First sentence: During the past twenty years, elegies have been more prolifically written, intensively studied, and resourcefully theorized than poems in practically any other traditional genre.