The prose elegy : an exploration of modern American and British fiction /
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,...
| Основен автор: | Vickery, John B. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
℗♭2009.
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Print version::
Prose elegy. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction : major elegiac changes
- Elegies of family and love. Loss of the ideal : James Agee's A death in the family ; Failure as a loss : John Updike's The centaur ; Generational critiques : Virginia Woolf's The years and William Faulkner's Sartoris ; Familial disintegration : James Joyce's Dubliners and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon revisited" ; The loss of romantic love : Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises and James Baldwin's Giovanni's room ; Marriage as cultural change : Henry James's The portrait of a lady and Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to arms ; Marriage as the end of love : F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the night and John Updike's Too far to go
- Cultural and philosophical elegies. Modernism on culture and history : William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Ford Madox Ford's Parade's end, and others ; Bifocal time : Virginia Woolf's The years and To the lighthouse ; Perspectives on the self : Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano, Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Joan Didion's Play it as it lays
- A coda : continuity and innovation.