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Beyond Consolation

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Description for Beyond Consolation Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.

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.

Milton epitomized the traditional use of the Orpheus myth as an illustration of the female threat to masculine poetic prowess, focused on the beleaguered Orpheus. Zeiger documents the gradual inclusion of Eurydice, from the elegies of ... Read more

Zeiger then considers women poets who challenge the assumptions of elegies written by men, sometimes identifying themselves with Eurydice. Among these poets are H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne Sexton, and Elizabeth Bishop. Zeiger concludes with a discussion of elegies for victims of current plagues, explaining how poets mourning those lost to AIDS and breast cancer rewrite elegy in ways less repressive, sacrificial, or punitive than those of the Orphean tradition. Among the poets discussed are Essex Hemphill, Thom Gunn, Mark Doty, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Marilyn Hacker.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Reading Women Writing
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801484414
SKU
V9780801484414
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About Melissa F. Zeiger
Melissa F. Zeiger is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College.

Reviews for Beyond Consolation
An engaged and engaging study of the complex, late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century interactions between death, sexuality, and the changing shapes of elegy.
Sandra M. Gilbert
Victorian Studies
Melissa Zeiger's well-written book on the modern elegy engages a series of related yet distinct thematic concerns... By helping to break up the standard critical paradigm for elegy and for mourning, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Beyond Consolation


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