Lost Loss in American Elegiac Poetry - Tracing Inaccessible Grief From Stevens to Post-9/11

This book examines unconventional elegies of losses that are "lost" on us, discussing what it means to "lose" loss and what happens when dispossessory experiences go unacknowledged or become inaccessible.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Wallace Stevens's Elegiac Mode: Creating Fictions of Loss
Chapter 2: Sylvia Plath's Poems of 1963: Dysthymia and Subterranean Loss
Chapter 3: Elizabeth Bishop's Geography III: Unlosing Lost Loss
Chapter 4: Sharon Olds's The Dead and the Living: Distant Loss and Ethical Empathy
Chapter 5: Post 9-11 Elegiac Poetry: the Unsaid
Conclusion & Afterword: Lost Loss beyond American Elegiac Poetry
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index

About the author

Toshiaki Komura is associate professor of English at Kobe College.

Summary

This book examines unconventional elegies of losses that are "lost" on us, discussing what it means to "lose" loss and what happens when dispossessory experiences go unacknowledged or become inaccessible.

Product details

• Authors: Toshiaki Komura
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781793612625
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-262-5
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Reading Trauma and Memory
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: from c 2000