Styles of Ruin: Joseph Brodsky and the Postmodernist Elegy

by David Rigsbee

Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky is one of the most celebrated poets of our time, preoccupied with the the nature and destiny of poetry in our era. This volume analyzes Brodsky's career in terms of key elegies and investigates the critical role of elegiac thinking in postmodernist poetics. In his elegies for poetic ancestors, family, friends, and the self, Brodsky demonstrates a concern for a paradox that is at the heart of modern elegiac poetry:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031330419X
• ISBN13: 9780313304194
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"