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

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

Komura, Toshiaki

Hardcover

Series: Reading Trauma and Memory

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1793612625
ISBN13: 9781793612625
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Oct 7 2020
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lost Loss in American Elegiac Poetry: Tracing Inaccessible Grief from Stevens to Post-9/11 examines contemporary literary expressions of losses that are lost on us, inquiring what it means to lose loss and what happens when dispossessory experiences go unacknowledged or become inaccessible. Toshiaki Komura analyzes a range of elegiac poetry that does not neatly align with conventional assumptions about the genre, including Wallace Stevens's The Owl in the Sarcophagus, Sylvia Plath's last poems, Elizabeth Bishop's Geography III, Sharon Olds's The Dead and the Living, Louise Glück's Averno, and poems written after 9/11. What these poems reveal at the intersection of personal and communal mourning are the mechanism of cognitive myth-making involved in denied grief and its social and ethical implications. Engaging with an assortment of philosophical, psychoanalytic, and psychological theories, Lost Loss in American Elegiac Poetry elucidates how poetry gives shape to the vague despondency of unrecognized loss and what kind of phantomic effects these equivocal grieving experiences may create.

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