The Self-Elegy: Narcissistic Nostalgia or Proleptic Postmortem?

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationA Companion to Poetic Genre
PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons
Pages93-103
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9781444336733
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 27 2011

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Arts and Humanities

Keywords

  • Dickinson's contemporaneous pieces, destabilizing afterworld
  • Dickinson, ushering self-elegy into its modernist phase
  • Dunn's poem, evading nostalgia that self-elegy falls prey to
  • Owen, using a posthumous voice in the poem
  • Self-elegies, grappling with two conflicting desires
  • Self-elegy, looking at the poet as product of place and age
  • Self-elegy, narcissistic nostalgia or proleptic postmortem
  • Self-elegy, often elided, younger sibling of the elegy
  • Stevie smith's self-elegies, preoccupied with death in her poetry
  • Switching of worth between body and verse

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