Radical Elegies: White Violence, Patriarchy, and Necropoetics

by Eleanor Perry

Book Overview

Scholarship has traditionally characterized elegy as a Eurocentric tradition - a genealogy spanning from ancient Greek pastoral poems via the "English elegy" to English and Anglo-American Modernist contemporary poets.
Perry examines how these genealogical constructions operate as a means of framing which guides interpretation. This book argues that they reflect a necropoetics - a system of principles, precepts and techniques which serve to establish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350236101
• ISBN13: 9781350236103
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"