The Prose Elegy: An Exploration of Modern American and British Fiction Contributor(s): Vickery, John B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807133922 ISBN-13: 9780807133927 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 810.935 |
LCCN: 2008031560 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (0.85 lbs) 200 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Traditional English poetic elegists offer both writers and readers hope. After lamenting an individual's death and confronting the mortality of all living things, these poets seek consolation from religion, philosophy, or culture for the inevitability of death. The modern prose elegy, however, follows a different path -- one that determinedly questions all possible resolutions. In The Prose Elegy, John B. Vickery continues the work he began in The Modern Elegiac Temper, which examined the form in British and American poetry. He now considers the works of American and British fiction writers from Henry James to Joan Didion and reveals how the elegy expanded into prose and why it evolved so as to deal not only with death but also with other forms of loss. |