...Debra Shostak Isabel Coixet's 2008 adaptation of Philip Roth's Dying Animal (2001) signals in its title, Elegy , the conceptual divergence of the film from its source. Roth's title expresses the inescapable reality of the mortal body, its desires, decay, and disappearance; Coixet turns from...

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... turns away from the wider world to examine plants and anthills. Richard Poirier points out the echoes of Gray's Elegy in the second and third lines of the poem, along with other intertexts, most notably Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Wood- spurge" (35-37). He writes that "[b]oth poems are about...

..., it is in the Holocaust poetry of Jar- rell and Plath that such an ethics gains its fullest and most harrowing realization. Although much of The Ethics of Mourning is devoted to describing the form of what Spargo calls "the anti-elegy," or the ways in which Milton, Shelley, and Hardy's poetry subverts the "lyrical...

... a translation of story to shared, communal memory when she decides to read the experimental novel Lost Children Elegies aloud, noting that moving from “the ink lines of the page” to the sound of spoken words culminates in a conversion of “impressions, images, future borrowed memories” (144). Later, the boy...

... to comparison, no more so than other works that also feature the grave site, such as Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1883), Ivan Menchell’s Cemetery Club (1990), Evelyn Waugh’s Loved One (1948), or some of Samuel Beckett’s plays. For a number of reasons, these other works do not com...

... that do have a kind of life which is more than simply historical convenience. The only example that I can think of where you could make this argument would be the elegy. If it is true that the process of mourning has a kind of intrinsic rhythm, then the structure of the elegy is not just a historical...

... children are gone, the line between them and the Indigenous warrior children past, subject to forced relocation by the violent settler state, blurred once again. Memphis, meanwhile, has traded away to the lost children almost all of their possessions—compass, map, backpack, flashlight, even Elegies...

...: "as though 'dead' were just another adjective."7 Schuyler's poems, by contrast, display an alert, acute, even painful, aware- ness of the fragility and vulnerability — that is to say, reality — of all existence, including both language and its users. In an elegy for a friend who took his own...

... is largely about modern elegy and (following Jahan Ramazani s work) its unconjurable elegiac subject (44); Resignation is a dynamic study of poetry s fear of a society of spectacle and consumption; Imagination effectively traces the Wordsworthian ideal of the meditative poet as a subject who can see...

.... By removing the traces of a poem’s generic specificity, anthology excerpts can single-handedly enact the process of lyricization that Jackson (2008, 183) describes, in which “songs, riddles, epigrams, sonnets, epitaphs, blasons, lieder, elegies, marches, dialogues, conceits, ballads, epistles, hymns...

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... to Annie Dillard to Gretel Ehrlich, this preservationist impulse has always been explicit. 3. For a classic study of the compensatory dynamics of the elegy, see Sacks 1985. vulnerable, they embody in heightened, even hyperbolic ways the distinctly modern fate of being left behind by sociohistorical...

... the native people's elegy for the soldiers—"May the example of those boys who died for their country, each fighting for his own cause, help to bring the two races to a better understanding. May their example wipe out forever the ill feelings and prejudices between the Americans and the Filipinos, which...

... informs the album is compounded, moreover, by a quirk of history: the end of the Cold War coincided with the advent of the AIDS epidemic. Although these two separate issues coexist without any apparent connection in Behaviour— "Being Boring" and, arguably, "Only the Wind" are AIDS elegies—they would...

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... READING OF GERTRUDE STEIN 149 Through a quite particular allusion, Ashbery characterizes the generality of Stanzas as an interest not in “events” but in “their ‘way of happening’ ” (251, 252). Taken from Auden’s elegy for William Butler Yeats, the phrase appears twice...

... duluth As scholars, teachers, and consumers of literature, we rely regularly — if unre- flectively — on genre and the critical apparatus it provides. Each year critics con- tinue to generate hundreds of articles that relate individual texts to genres and subgenres, from lyric and novel to elegy...