The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy (Oxford Handbooks)

Synopsis

Provides Both A Historical Survey And Thematic Engagement With The Themes Of The Elegy. Introduction / Karen Weisman -- Ancient Greek Elegy / Gregory Nagy -- What's Love Got To Do With It? : The Peculiar Story Of Elegy In Rome / Paul Allen Miller -- Lamentation And Lament In The Hebrew Bible / Edward L. Greenstein -- Late Roman Elegy / Michael Roberts -- Not What It Was : The World Of Old English Elegy / Andy Orchard -- The Consolations Of Philosophy : Later Medieval Elegy / Jamie C. Fumo -- Nation And History : The Emergence Of The English Pastoral Elegy / William C. Watterson -- Classical Love Elegy In The Renaissance (and After) / Gordon Braden -- The Funeral Elegy In Early Modern Britain : A Brief History / Lorna Clymer -- Elegies In Country Churchyards : The Prospect Poem In And Around The Eighteenth Century / Helen Deutsch -- New World Frontiers : The American Puritan Elegy / Jeffrey Hammond -- American Constitutional Elegy / Max Cavitch -- Roman Elegiac Hybridity / Stuart Curran -- The Dark Ecology Of Elegy / Timothy Morton -- Victoria Dressed In Black : Poetry In An Elegiac Age / Erik Gray -- In The Tense Of Decadence : Modernist Elegy And The Great War / Vincent Sherry -- Between The Bullet And The Lie : British Elegy Between The War / Patricia Rae -- Fresh Woods : Elegy And Ecology Among The Ruins / Bonnie Costello -- That The People Might Live : Notes Toward A Study Of Native American Elegy / Arnold Krupat -- Elegies Upon The Dying / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Attending To Aids : Elegy's Rendez-vous With Testimonial / Ross Chambers -- Kaddish : Jewish American Elegy Post-1945 / Maeera Y. Schreiber -- The Contemporary Anti-elegy / R. Clifton Spargo -- Women's Elegy : Early Modern / Lauren Shohet -- Anguish No Cessation Knows : Elegy And The British Woman Poet, 1660-1834 / Anne K. Mellor -- Women's Elegies, 1834-present : Female Authorship And The Affective Politics Of Grief / Anita Helle -- Lett Me Not Pyne For Poverty : Maternal Elegy In Early Modern England / Lisa J. Schnell -- Between Men : Literary History And The Work Of Mourning / Jonathan Goldberg -- Elegy In English Drama, 1590-1640 / Jonathan Crewe -- Post Coitum Triste : Elegiac Sexuality In Drama, 1700-1800 / Catherine Burroughs -- Mourning Modernity : Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, And Elegiac Form / Thomas Pfau -- Elegy And The Gothic : The Common Grounds / Jerrold E. Hogle -- Moving Pictures At The Edge Of Stasis : Elegy And The Elegiac In Film / Paul Coates -- Nationalism, Transnationalism, And The Poetry Of Mourning / Jahan Ramazani -- Museum Elegies / Eric Gidal -- The War Memorial As Elegy / Kirk Savage -- Grieving Images : Elegy And The Visual Arts / Elizabeth Helsinger -- On Photographic Elegy / Josh Ellenbogen. Edited By Karen Weisman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.