The Modern Elegiac Temper

by John B. Vickery

Lamentation of death is the traditional elegiac focus, but in the twentieth century the elegy has become characterized as well by the mourning of other kinds of loss--those personal, familial, romantic, cultural, and philosophical privations and dispossessions that have so greatly shaped the modern sensibility. According to John B. Vickery, a profound elegiac temper is itself the major trait of twentieth-century culture, registered in attitudes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807131423
• ISBN13: 9780807131428
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"