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Dying Modern
A Meditation on Elegy
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Diana Fuss
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English
Published/Copyright:
2013
About this book
In Dying Modern, renowned literary critic Diana Fuss argues that as death has been increasingly shunted off-stage, out of the public eye, poets have taken up the task of reckoning with dying, loss, absence, and grief.
Author / Editor information
Diana Fuss is Louis W. Fairchild '24 Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms that Shaped Them, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize; Identification Papers; and Essentially Speaking. She is the editor of Human, All Too Human; Pink Freud; and Inside/Out.
Reviews
“[Fuss] approaches variations on the form of elegy with such complexity and acumen, and provides much insight into the complexities of our relation to death and the enigma of our simultaneous proximity and avoidance. These are things, after all, about which it can be almost impossible to talk.”
-- Diana Arterian Los Angeles Review of Books
“[An] elegant meditation. . . . Even Fuss admits that she is surprised that ‘her little book on elegy . . . [which] I thought was about dyig quietly evolved into a book about surviving. It is a pleasure to be surprised alongside her.”
-- Sally Connolly TLS
“This book is an erudite, beautifully written study of them. If you’re a lover of Emily Dickinson’s work or that of Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, or Richard Wilbur, you will want to read this book. If you teach literary criticism or simply love poetry, you will want to read Fuss’s book. Superb book.”
-- Hope Leman Critical Margins
“In a luminous, beautifully considered study of the modern elegy, Fuss (Princeton) demonstrates the ways that poets have creatively imagined modes of talking about the dead...Highly recommended.”
-- D. A. Henningfeld Choice
“[Fuss] argues persuasively for the continued value of the consolatory elegy and examines “the ethical dimentions of the modern elegy.”... [A] concise, insightful, meditative book.”
-- Barbara Kelly Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin
"An exceptionally lively, often glitteringly witty essay on the vagaries, contents, and discontents of nineteenth- and twentieth-century elegy, a genre
whose fate, in England and America, has been radically disrupted and even, sometimes, deformed by the cultural fate of modern death itself."
-- Sandra Gilbert Literature and Medicine
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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
April 12, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780822397502
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
160
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9780822397502
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Professional and scholarly;
