The prose elegy: an exploration of modern American and British fiction
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| adam_text | THE
PROSE ELEGY
AN EXPLORATION OF
MODERN AMERICAN AND
BRITISH FICTION
JOHN B. VICKERY
Traditional English poetic elegists offer both writ¬
ers and readers hope. After lamenting an individu¬
al s death and confronting the mortality of all living
things, these poets seek consolation from religion,
philosophy, or culture for the inevitability of death.
The modern prose elegy, however, follows a different
path
—
one that determinedly questions all possible
resolutions. In The Prose Elegy, John B. Vickery con¬
tinues the work he began in The Modern Elegiac Tem¬
per, which examined the form in British and Ameri¬
can poetry. He now considers the works of American
and British fiction writers from Henry James to Joan
Didion and reveals how the elegy expanded into
prose and why it evolved so as to deal not only with
death but also with other forms of loss.
Focusing on individual works, Vickery explores
both the forms the elegy takes throughout the twen¬
tieth century and the skeptical and uncertain atti¬
tudes of writers struggling to confront the trauma of
loss. He offers detailed interpretations of the elegiac
components in the works of novelists James Joyce,
William Faulkner, Virginia
Woolf,
and Ernest Hem¬
ingway, each of whom forged a distinctive style, as
well as chroniclers of a pervasive stoicism, such as
Malcolm Lowry and Joan Didion, and writers as nu-
anced as Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
James Agee, and Ford Madox Ford.
For these writers, Vickery shows, sorrow intrudes
upon the personal, intellectual, and cultural aspects
of daily living. By exploring how loss touches each
of these areas, their books probe intellectual bound-
aries
and discover new elegiac themes. Truman Ca¬
pote and John Updike, for example, view memory—
which can disappear quickly—as inherently sad.
They therefore elegize memory. What consoles writ¬
ers of the modern elegy changes too. In place of Mil¬
ton s religion or Shelley s philosophy, twentieth-cen¬
tury writers also seek comfort from what saddens
them: family, marriage, and ideas of the self.
In The Prose Elegy, Vickery convincingly demon¬
strates that the elegy remains a dominant mode
throughout British and American literature—with
perhaps greater pertinence to our lives than ever
before.
CONTENTS
Introduction: Major Elegiac Changes
ι
part
1:
Elegies of Family and Love
ι.
Loss of the Ideal: James Agee s
Λ
Death in the Family
11
2.
Failure as a Loss: John Updike s The Centaur
34
3.
Generational Critiques: Virginia Woolf s The Years and William
Faulkner s Sartoris
41
4.
Familial Disintegration: James Joyce s
Dubliners
and F. Scott
Fitzgerald s Babylon Revisited
58
5.
The Loss of Romantic Love: Ernest Hemingway s The Sun Also Rises
and James Baldwin s Giovanni s Room
65
6.
Marriage as Cultural Change: Henry James s The Portrait of a Lady
and Ernest Hemingway s A Farewell to Arms
85
7.
Marriage as the End of Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald s Tender Is the
Night and John Updike s Too Far to Go
106
part
2:
Cultural and Philosophical Elegies
8.
Modernism on Culture and History: William Faulkner s Absalom,
Absalom! Ford Madox Ford s Parade s End, and Others
129
9.
Bifocal Time: Virginia Woolf s The Years and To the
Lighthouse
137
10.
Perspectives on the Self: Malcolm Lowry s Under the Volcano,
Truman Capote s Breakfast at Tiffany s, and Joan Didion s Play It as
It Lays
152
a coda: Continuity and Innovation
163
Notes
169
Works Cited
181
Index
187
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