Beyond Consolation: Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy
ISBN: 9781501711336
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Elegiac poetry -- History and criticism; Death in literature; Sex in literature; Orpheus (Greek mythology) in literature;

Using as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they reflect historical changes in the politics of gender and sexuality. Although her focus is primarily...


Melissa F. Zeiger is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College.

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