The Contemporary Elegy in World Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71642-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

Reihe: DQR Studies in the Lyric

This volume navigates the entangled expressions of mourning across languages, cultures, and traditions, shedding light
on the evolving shapes and discourses of contemporary elegy in world literature. By adopting a transnational approach, this collection offers a much needed conceptualization of what elegy has become today.


Contributors are Nick Admussen, Adele Bardazzi, Roberto Binetti, Emily Drumsta, Francesco Giusti, Roberto Gaudioso, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Karen Leeder, Brandon Menke, Jahan Ramazani, Rachel Elizabeth Robinson, David Sherman and Ivanna Sang Een Yi.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bardazzi, Adele

Binetti, Roberto

Culler, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Contemporary Entangled Elegy

Adele Bardazzi, Roberto Binetti, and Jonathan Culler

Part1 Resistance

1 The Elegiac Transnational

Chinese Poetry, Sutured Absence, World Literature

Nick Admussen

2 Impossible Elegies

Resisting the Paternal

Adele Bardazzi

3 Mourning Nature: The Elegiac Mode and the Not Yet Lost

Re-reading Juliana Spahr’s “Gentle Now, Don’t Add to Heartache”

Francesco Giusti

4 Elegiac Subjunctive, or Secular Variations on Posthumous Personhood

David Sherman

Part2 Revision

5 Shamanic Chant and Contemporary Korean Elegy

Kim Hyesoon’s “Autobiography of Death”

Ivanna Sang Een Yi

6 Self-Elegy and the Making of Lyric Communities

Roberto Binetti

7 Durs Grünbein’s Elegy for Dresden

Karen Leeder

8 Rec(h)ording Elegy

Transformative Mourning in the Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña

Rachel Elizabeth Robinson

Part3 Re-mapping

9 The Poetics of Pain

Lament and Elegy in Modern Greek Literature

Gail Holst-Warhaft

10 Mourning Women

Two Modern Takes on Arabic Elegy

Emily Drumsta

11 Death as a Natural Presence and as a Monster

The Elegy in African Textual Traditions with a Focus on Swahili Verbal Art

Roberto Gaudioso

12 Resisting Annihilation

The AIDS Anthology Poem and Collective Melancholia

Brandon Menke

13 A Global Web of Elegies

Jahan Ramazani

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Adele Bardazzi, DPhil (Oxon) is Assistant Professor in Italian Studies at the University of Utrecht and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research delves into issues of form and interpretation, poetry and poetics, lyric theory, gender and women’s studies. Among her past and forthcoming publications are: Eugenio Montale: A Poetics of Mourning (2022); Elegy Today: Resistance, Revision, Re-Mapping (2023); Weaving Media in Modern and Contemporary Italian Poetry (2023);Conglomerates: Andrea Zanzotto’s Poetic Clusters; Textile Poetics of Entanglement (Brill); and The Poetics of Fabric. She is founder of the Weaving Media Network, and co-founder of Italian Poetry Today and Non solo muse


Roberto Binetti, DPhil (Oxon), is Research Fellow at the University of Padua, working on a project on nuclear anxiety in 20th-century lyric poetry. His research focuses on modern and contemporary poetry, with an emphasis on the relationship between the lyric and cultural history. Among his past and forthcoming publications are: Elegy Today. Resistance, Revision; Re-Mapping (2023); Poetics of Becoming: Women’s Poetry in Italy’s Long Seventies; Conglomerates: Andrea Zanzotto’s Poetic Clusters; La domanda dell’inconscio: Lingua e vita interiore nella poesia di Amelia Rosselli e Andrea Zanzotto; and Anne Carson: letteratura liquida. He is co-founder of Italian Poetry Today and Non solo muse.

Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor Emeritus of English at Cornell University. His research is in the fields of structuralism,
literary theory and literary criticism. He is the author of Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature
(1975) and Theory of the Lyric (2015).