"Forms of Loss" investigates the ways in which the late modernist poems of H.D., W.H. Auden, and T.S. Eliot move away from the personal, consolatory, and pastoral language of the English elegy while expressing mourning, absence, and loss. By looking at poetic form through twentieth-century cultural institutions of mourning, I try to reconstruct the methods through which modernist poets aestheticized the destruction of war or resisted the depresonalizing conditions of modernity. I begin with H.D.'s Trilogy, which I argue uses the form of the Greek elegiac couplet as a way of juxtaposing ancient ruins with the bombsites of London during the Blitz, effectively rendering the future ruins of Western civilization in Sapphic epitaphs that convey a...
Focusing on Eugenio Montale’s “La casa dei doganieri” (Le occasioni, 1939), this article explores th...
This dissertation is an examination of nineteenth-century British elegiac poetry. It focuses on poem...
This dissertation is an examination of nineteenth-century British elegiac poetry. It focuses on poem...
Bypassing the current theory that attributes the absence of consolation in modern elegies to melanch...
Bypassing the current theory that attributes the absence of consolation in modern elegies to melanch...
'End' as 'goal' and 'limit' is explored in signs, symbols, metaphors, metonymies, and myths in the w...
This paper explores the relations between the inevitability of loss and the counter-responses of cre...
"Remembering the Dead" is a critique of Amanda Merrit's Poem "After the Death of your Husband". The ...
While Fred D’Aguiar’s preoccupation with acknowledging the dead and honoring their memory gives his ...
Fragmentation is a basic symptom of loss, and poetry naturally reflects this disjointing and destruc...
Fragmentation is a basic symptom of loss, and poetry naturally reflects this disjointing and destruc...
Fragmentation is a basic symptom of loss, and poetry naturally reflects this disjointing and destruc...
Focusing on Eugenio Montale’s “La casa dei doganieri” (Le occasioni, 1939), this article explores th...
How and why do we write about mourning? How do different narratives encourage us to dwell on and in ...
Focusing on Eugenio Montale’s “La casa dei doganieri” (Le occasioni, 1939), this article explores th...
Focusing on Eugenio Montale’s “La casa dei doganieri” (Le occasioni, 1939), this article explores th...
This dissertation is an examination of nineteenth-century British elegiac poetry. It focuses on poem...
This dissertation is an examination of nineteenth-century British elegiac poetry. It focuses on poem...
Bypassing the current theory that attributes the absence of consolation in modern elegies to melanch...
Bypassing the current theory that attributes the absence of consolation in modern elegies to melanch...
'End' as 'goal' and 'limit' is explored in signs, symbols, metaphors, metonymies, and myths in the w...
This paper explores the relations between the inevitability of loss and the counter-responses of cre...
"Remembering the Dead" is a critique of Amanda Merrit's Poem "After the Death of your Husband". The ...
While Fred D’Aguiar’s preoccupation with acknowledging the dead and honoring their memory gives his ...
Fragmentation is a basic symptom of loss, and poetry naturally reflects this disjointing and destruc...
Fragmentation is a basic symptom of loss, and poetry naturally reflects this disjointing and destruc...
Fragmentation is a basic symptom of loss, and poetry naturally reflects this disjointing and destruc...
Focusing on Eugenio Montale’s “La casa dei doganieri” (Le occasioni, 1939), this article explores th...
How and why do we write about mourning? How do different narratives encourage us to dwell on and in ...
Focusing on Eugenio Montale’s “La casa dei doganieri” (Le occasioni, 1939), this article explores th...
Focusing on Eugenio Montale’s “La casa dei doganieri” (Le occasioni, 1939), this article explores th...
This dissertation is an examination of nineteenth-century British elegiac poetry. It focuses on poem...
This dissertation is an examination of nineteenth-century British elegiac poetry. It focuses on poem...