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OverviewLost 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Toshiaki KomuraPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.90cm Weight: 0.354kg ISBN: 9781793612649ISBN 10: 1793612641 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 15 May 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Wallace Stevens’s Elegiac Mode: Creating Fictions of Loss Chapter 2: Sylvia Plath’s Poems of 1963: Dysthymia and Subterranean Loss Chapter 3: Elizabeth Bishop’s Geography III: Unlosing Lost Loss Chapter 4: Sharon Olds’s The Dead and the Living: Distant Loss and Ethical Empathy Chapter 5: Post 9-11 Elegiac Poetry: the Unsaid Conclusion & Afterword: Lost Loss beyond American Elegiac Poetry Acknowledgments About the Author IndexReviewsIn this remarkable book, Toshiaki Komura has discovered a poetic genre hiding, like Poe's purloined letter, in plain sight. Lost loss is a perfect way of naming that elusive sense of loss at the equivocal core of some of the most compelling American poems, from Wallace Stevens to the poetic first responders of 9/11. We may have thought we knew what poetic elegies were all about. Komura makes us think again. -- Christopher Benfey, Mount Holyoke College Author InformationToshiaki Komura is associate professor of English at Kobe College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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