Beyond consolation
Subtitle: death, sexuality, and the changing shapes of elegy
By: Melissa F. Zeiger.
Series: Reading women writing
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Elegiac poetry -- History and criticism; Death in literature; Sex in literature; Orpheus (Greek mythology) in literature
Description: Using as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they reflect historical changes in the politics of gender and sexuality. Although her focus is primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, the scope of her investigation is grand: from John Milton's "Lycidas" to very recently written AIDS and breast cancer elegies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-187) and index.