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Elegy and Paradox W. David Shaw

Elegy and Paradox par W. David Shaw

Elegy and Paradox W. David Shaw


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To what extent can the consolations of a poetry of loss be made to seem reasonable even compelling - to readers living today? This book shows how the elegist's testing of conventions poses crises for understanding and shocks to values and beliefs from one generation to the next.

Elegy and Paradox Résumé

Elegy and Paradox: Testing the Conventions W. David Shaw

To what extent can the consolations of a poetry of loss be made to seem reasonable even compelling - to readers living today? In this book which asks, whether a historical and critical knowledge of the genre elegy is still really possible, W. David Shaw shows how the elegist's testing of conventions poses crises for understanding and shocks to values and beliefs from one generation to the next. Shaw argues that the idea of an elusive truth, of an apparent contradiction that invites resolution, explains the power of many elegies we read. After exploring paradoxes of performative language and circular form in classical and confessional elegies, respectively, he exammines the paradoxes of a silent-speaking word in Romantic elegy and paradoxes of breakdown and breakthrough in modern elegy. A contrast between strong and weak mourners in Ben Jonson's and Henry King's elegies, between impact and tremour in Tennyson's elegies, and between tough- and tenderminded mourners in Frost's Home Burial, suggests that reading elegies, like writing them, is more than an academic exercise; it is also a life-and-death issue. Though a polemic, written out of an urgent and timely sense of the importance of a humane, experience-based testing of elegy's rhetoric and conventions, it also retraces a path great elegists have always followed when modifying tradition and relating what is new in their poems to conventional elements.

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Shaw's views are important because they uncover, in a highly competent scholarly fashion, some of the mysteries of a mysteriously complex poetic subgenre.--'Virginia Quarterly Review'

À propos de W. David Shaw

W. David Shaw is professor of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto. His books include 'Victorians and Mystery: Crises of Representation, The Lucid Veil: Poetic Truth in the Victorian Age,' and 'Tennyson's Style.'

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CIN0801848369G
9780801848360
0801848369
Elegy and Paradox: Testing the Conventions W. David Shaw
Occasion - Bon état
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Johns Hopkins University Press
19941001
296
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