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This volume navigates the entangled expressions of mourning across languages, cultures, and traditions, shedding light
on the evolving shapes and discourses of contemporary elegy in world literature. By adopting a transnational approach, this collection offers a much needed conceptualization of what elegy has become today.
Contributors are Nick Admussen, Adele Bardazzi, Roberto Binetti, Emily Drumsta, Francesco Giusti, Roberto Gaudioso, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Karen Leeder, Brandon Menke, Jahan Ramazani, Rachel Elizabeth Robinson, David Sherman and Ivanna Sang Een Yi.
Contributors are Nick Admussen, Adele Bardazzi, Roberto Binetti, Emily Drumsta, Francesco Giusti, Roberto Gaudioso, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Karen Leeder, Brandon Menke, Jahan Ramazani, Rachel Elizabeth Robinson, David Sherman and Ivanna Sang Een Yi.
Price: $97.00
Pages: 314
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: DQR Studies in Literature
Publication Date:
23 January 2025
ISBN: 9789004716421
Format: Hardcover
"Is there more to elegy than consolation or its refusal? The essays that animate this exciting and timely collection invite us to think beyond the familiar binary of elegy and anti-elegy, revealing the many other types of labor mourning poems assume in our increasingly global world: embodiments of social justice, expressions of international solidarity, vehicles of democratization, exercises in shared empathy. An important and field-changing book."
- Diana Fuss, Louis W. Fairchild Class of ’24 Professor of English, Princeton University.
"Situated at the threshold of life and death, the elegy maintains a universal pertinence across cultures. Its histories in many ways represent the histories of humanity. This volume offers invaluable insights into the history of the contemporary elegy in its diverse forms of expression. Its broad-ranging essays leave no doubt that there does indeed exist an ‘elegiac solidarity’ (Jahan Ramazani) among the manifold of elegiac genres in contemporary world literature."
- Robert Harrison, Emeritus Rosina-Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature, Stanford University.
- Diana Fuss, Louis W. Fairchild Class of ’24 Professor of English, Princeton University.
"Situated at the threshold of life and death, the elegy maintains a universal pertinence across cultures. Its histories in many ways represent the histories of humanity. This volume offers invaluable insights into the history of the contemporary elegy in its diverse forms of expression. Its broad-ranging essays leave no doubt that there does indeed exist an ‘elegiac solidarity’ (Jahan Ramazani) among the manifold of elegiac genres in contemporary world literature."
- Robert Harrison, Emeritus Rosina-Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature, Stanford University.
Adele Bardazzi, DPhil (Oxon) is Assistant Professor in Italian Studies at the University of Utrecht and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research delves into issues of form and interpretation, poetry and poetics, lyric theory, gender and women’s studies. Among her past and forthcoming publications are: Eugenio Montale: A Poetics of Mourning (2022); Elegy Today: Resistance, Revision, Re-Mapping (2023); Weaving Media in Modern and Contemporary Italian Poetry (2023);Conglomerates: Andrea Zanzotto’s Poetic Clusters; Textile Poetics of Entanglement (Brill); and The Poetics of Fabric. She is founder of the Weaving Media Network, and co-founder of Italian Poetry Today and Non solo muse.
Roberto Binetti, DPhil (Oxon), is Research Fellow at the University of Padua, working on a project on nuclear anxiety in 20th-century lyric poetry. His research focuses on modern and contemporary poetry, with an emphasis on the relationship between the lyric and cultural history. Among his past and forthcoming publications are: Elegy Today. Resistance, Revision, Re-Mapping (2023); Poetics of Becoming: Women’s Poetry in Italy’s Long Seventies; Conglomerates: Andrea Zanzotto’s Poetic Clusters; La domanda dell’inconscio: Lingua e vita interiore nella poesia di Amelia Rosselli e Andrea Zanzotto; and Anne Carson: letteratura liquida. He is co-founder of Italian Poetry Today and Non solo muse.
Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor Emeritus of English at Cornell University. His research is in the fields of structuralism, literary theory and literary criticism. He is the author of Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature (1975) and Theory of the Lyric (2015).
Roberto Binetti, DPhil (Oxon), is Research Fellow at the University of Padua, working on a project on nuclear anxiety in 20th-century lyric poetry. His research focuses on modern and contemporary poetry, with an emphasis on the relationship between the lyric and cultural history. Among his past and forthcoming publications are: Elegy Today. Resistance, Revision, Re-Mapping (2023); Poetics of Becoming: Women’s Poetry in Italy’s Long Seventies; Conglomerates: Andrea Zanzotto’s Poetic Clusters; La domanda dell’inconscio: Lingua e vita interiore nella poesia di Amelia Rosselli e Andrea Zanzotto; and Anne Carson: letteratura liquida. He is co-founder of Italian Poetry Today and Non solo muse.
Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor Emeritus of English at Cornell University. His research is in the fields of structuralism, literary theory and literary criticism. He is the author of Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature (1975) and Theory of the Lyric (2015).