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The Daughter's Way: Canadian Women's Paternal Elegies

The Daughter's Way: Canadian Women's Paternal Elegies

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Literary CriticismDeath & Dying

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ISBN10: 155458521X
ISBN13: 9781554585212
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
Published: Sep 13 2018
Pages: 279
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Daughter's Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women's elegies with a special emphasis on the father's death as a literary and political watershed. The book examines the work of Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Jay Macpherson, Margaret Atwood, Kristjana Gunnars, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Anne Carson, and Erin Mouré as elegiac daughteronomies--literary artifacts of mourning that grow from the poets' investigation into the function and limitations of elegiac convention. Some poets treat the father as a metaphor for socio-political power, while others explore more personal iterations of loss, but all the poets in The Daughter's Way seek to redefine daughterly duty in a contemporary context by challenging elegiac tradition through questions of genre and gender.

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