The Modern Elegiac Temper

by John B. Vickery

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Lamentation of death is the traditional elegiac focus, but in the twentieth century the elegy has become characterized as well by the mourning of other kinds of loss--those personal, familial, romantic, cultural, and philosophical privations and dispossessions that have so greatly shaped the modern sensibility. According to John B. Vickery, a profound elegiac temper is itself the major trait of twentieth-century culture, registered in attitudes...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807131423

ISBN13:9780807131428

Release Date:May 2006

Publisher:LSU Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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