Elegy & paradox: testing the conventions
To what extent can the consolations of a poetry of loss be made to seem reasonable - even compelling - to readers living today? In the first book to ask whether a historical and critical knowledge of the genre elegy is still really possible, W. David Shaw shows how the elegist's testing of conv...
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| Zusammenfassung: | To what extent can the consolations of a poetry of loss be made to seem reasonable - even compelling - to readers living today? In the first book to ask whether a historical and critical knowledge of the genre elegy is still really possible, W. David Shaw shows how the elegist's testing of conventions poses new crises for understanding and new shocks to values and beliefs from one generation to the next Shaw argues that the idea of an elusive truth, of an apparent contradiction that invites resolution, explains the power of many elegies we read. After exploring paradoxes of performative language and circular form in classical and confessional elegies, respectively, he examines the paradoxes of a silent-speaking word in Romantic elegy and paradoxes of breakdown and breakthrough in modern elegy. A contrast between strong and weak mourners in Ben Jonson's and Henry King's elegies, between impact and tremor in Tennyson's elegies, and between tough- and tender-minded mourners in Frost's "Home Burial," suggests that reading elegies, like writing them, is more than an academic exercise; it is also a life-and-death issue Though a polemical book - written out of an urgent and timely sense of the importance of a humane, experience-based testing of elegy's rhetoric and conventions - Elegy & Paradox also retraces a path great elegists have always followed when modifying tradition and relating what is new in their poems to conventional elements |
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amp; Paradox
Testing the Conventions
W David Shaw
The Johns Hopkins University Press •» Baltimore and London
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction i
1 •» The Paradox of Power: Doing-by-Saying in Classical
Elegy 10
Doing-by-Saying: The Performative Paradox 13
Austin on Felicity: Milton s Rhymes and Shelley s
Breathing 2 0
The Poetics of Caution: Arnold s Run-Ons 26
A Genre under Siege: Romantic Seer and Victorian
Skeptic 33
Models of Creation in Classical Elegy 43
2 •» The Paradox of Ends: The Circuitous Return in -
Confessional Elegy 50
In my end is my beginning: The Making of an Elegist 52
The Theology of Ends: Anatomy and Confession 55
From Augustine to Tennyson: Progress by Reversion 59
Leading Life Backwards: Retrospective Form 66
The Paradox of Proof: Logical Coercion and Free Assent 71
Confessional Elegy and the Theory of Genre 77
3 •» Epistemology and Paradox: Berkeley, Kant,
Foucault 79
The Fault Lines of Elegy: Seismic Shocks 80
Berkeley and Gray: Is Death Conceivable? 82
Kant and Wordsworth: Can a Real Reality be Known? 88
Foucault and Stevens: Can the Subject Disappear? 92
4 •» The Paradox of the Unspeakable: Speaking by Being
Silent in Romantic Elegy 103
Elegiac Riddles: Audacities of Reserve 107
A Grievous Reticence: Wordsworth s Unheard Words 112
The Muteness of Mourners Who Refuse to Act a Part:
Dickinson and Rossetti 118
Sound, Sense, and Silence: The Underthought of Elegy 126
Zero Values of Disjunction and Elision 133
Silences of Plenitude and Emptiness 138
Elegy and Silence: The Romantic Legacy 143
5 •» The Paradox of Veridiction: Breakdown and Break-
through in Modern Elegy 147
Places of Breakup: A Divided Mind 148
Breakdown or Breakthrough? From Elegy to Apocalypse 155
The Blessed Break: Three Elegies on Civil War 161
Broken Rhymes and Recovered Wholes: Marks of
Veridiction in Geoffrey Hill 169
6 •» Does Good Therapy Make Good Art? The Paradox of
Strong and Weak Mourners 180
Strong and Weak Mourners: Which Appear in the Best
Elegies? 181
Death the Phenomenon and Death the Idea 186
To End a Poem as a Mourner Might Hope to Die 194
Gender Wars: Tough- and Tender-Minded Mourners 199
7 •» The Paradox of Genre: Impact and Tremor in
Tennyson s Elegies 210
The View from Here and the View from Nowhere 212
Forgetting and Remembering 214
Kristeva s Paradox 217
Brokenness and Continuity 221
Concision and Indefinition 224
Staged versus Real Deaths 229
The Power of Genre: A Pragmatic Criticism 233
8 •» Elegy and History: Testing the Conventions 236
Two Approaches to Literary History: Positivist and
Critical 237
Todorov on Genres: Speech Acts and Literary History 240
Is Historical and Critical Knowledge of Elegies Possible? 243
Elegy and History: Testing the Conventions 246
Bibliographical Essay 251
Bibliography 261
Index 271
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