American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to WhitmanU of Minnesota Press - 352 páginas The most widely practiced and read form of verse in America, “elegies are poems about being left behind,” writes Max Cavitch. American Elegy is the history of a diverse people’s poetic experience of mourning and of mortality’s profound challenge to creative living. By telling this history in political, psychological, and aesthetic terms, American Elegy powerfully reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism. Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin, Bradstreet, Mather, Wheatley, Freneau, and Annis Stockton, highlighting their defiance of boundaries—between public and private, male and female, rational and sentimental—and demonstrating how closely intertwined the work of mourning and the work of nationalism were in the revolutionary era. He then turns to elegy’s adaptations during the market-driven Jacksonian age, including more obliquely elegiac poems like those of William Cullen Bryant and the popular child elegies of Emerson, Lydia Sigourney, and others. Devoting unprecedented attention to the early African-American elegy, Cavitch discusses poems written by free blacks and slaves, as well as white abolitionists, seeing in them the development of an African-American genealogical imagination. In addition to a major new reading of Whitman’s great elegy for Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Cavitch takes up less familiar passages from Whitman as well as Melville’s and Lazarus’s poems following Lincoln’s death. American Elegy offers critical and often poignant insights into the place of mourning in American culture. Cavitch examines literary responses to historical events—such as the American Revolution, Native American removal, African-American slavery, and the Civil War—and illuminates the states of loss, hope, desire, and love in American studies today. Max Cavitch is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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... criticism . 2. American poetry— History and criticism . 3. Mourning customs in literature . 4. Grief in litera- ture . 5. Death in literature . PS309.E4C38 2007 811.009'3548 - dc22 I. Title . 2006026217 Printed in the United States of ...
... criticism . 2. American poetry— History and criticism . 3. Mourning customs in literature . 4. Grief in litera- ture . 5. Death in literature . PS309.E4C38 2007 811.009'3548 - dc22 I. Title . 2006026217 Printed in the United States of ...
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... critics ; it matters deeply to me that they be pleased with this book . For their late readings of the entire manuscript , I owe special thanks to Chris Castiglia , Mary Loeffelholz , and Matthew Parr , as well as to certain lips ...
... critics ; it matters deeply to me that they be pleased with this book . For their late readings of the entire manuscript , I owe special thanks to Chris Castiglia , Mary Loeffelholz , and Matthew Parr , as well as to certain lips ...
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... criticism continues to recognize elegy as a major literary genre and an essential agent of literary tradition , and while elegies of other periods and places have been studied intensively as objects of sociohistorical as well as ...
... criticism continues to recognize elegy as a major literary genre and an essential agent of literary tradition , and while elegies of other periods and places have been studied intensively as objects of sociohistorical as well as ...
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... are so familiar , and in some ways so akin to one another , that it is easy to elide the historical and literary distance between them . process Critics and anthologists continue to do so , disregarding 4 INTRODUCTION.
... are so familiar , and in some ways so akin to one another , that it is easy to elide the historical and literary distance between them . process Critics and anthologists continue to do so , disregarding 4 INTRODUCTION.
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The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman Max Cavitch. process Critics and anthologists continue to do so , disregarding in the the abundance and variety of elegiac poetry produced in the interim and the complexities of the ...
The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman Max Cavitch. process Critics and anthologists continue to do so , disregarding in the the abundance and variety of elegiac poetry produced in the interim and the complexities of the ...
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1 Legacy and Revision in EighteenthCentury AngloAmerican Elegy | 33 |
2 Elegy and the Subject of National Mourning | 80 |
Custodianship and Opposition in Antebellum Elegy | 108 |
Waldo Emerson and the Price of Generation | 143 |
African Americans and Elegy from Wheatley to Lincoln | 180 |
Whitman and the Future of Elegy | 233 |
Objects | 286 |
Notes | 295 |
Index | 335 |
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Misery's Mathematics: Mourning, Compensation, and Reality in Antebellum ... Peter Balaam Prévia não disponível - 2009 |