Fuss Dying Modern

A Meditation on Elegy
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9750-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

In Dying Modern, renowned literary critic Diana Fuss argues that as death has been increasingly shunted off-stage, out of the public eye, poets have taken up the task of reckoning with dying, loss, absence, and grief.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fuss, Diana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Dying. Words 9

poetry 10

consolation 12

defiance 20

banality 24

newness 31

lastness 35

2. Reviving. Corpses 44

comic 46

religious 50

political 57

historical 61

literary 67

poetic 73

3. Surviving. Lovers 78

loving 82

waiting 86

leaving 90

refusing 95

existing 98

surviving 102

Conclusion 107

Notes 113

Bibliography 131

Index 141

Copyright Acknowledgments 149

Über Autor(innen)

Diana Fuss is Louis W. Fairchild '24 Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms that Shaped Them, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize; Identification Papers; and Essentially Speaking. She is the editor of Human, All Too Human; Pink Freud; and Inside/Out.