Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy

by Diana Fuss

Book Overview

In Dying Modern, one of our foremost literary critics inspires new ways to read, write, and talk about poetry. Diana Fuss does so by identifying three distinct but largely unrecognized voices within the well-studied genre of the elegy: the dying voice, the reviving voice, and the surviving voice. Through her deft readings of modern poetry, Fuss unveils the dramatic within the elegiac: the dying diva who relishes a great deathbed scene, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082235389X
• ISBN13: 9780822353898
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"