LEADER 04901nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910789931303321 005 20230801222446.0 010 $a1-4411-7489-3 010 $a1-280-57604-9 010 $a9786613605733 010 $a1-4411-2697-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000174405 035 $a(EBL)894568 035 $a(OCoLC)787843542 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000663897 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11416854 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000663897 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10612984 035 $a(PQKB)10637350 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC894568 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL894568 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10554600 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL360573 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000174405 100 $a20111017d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPastoral elegy in contemporary British and Irish poetry$b[electronic resource] /$fIain Twiddy 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cContinuum$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum literary studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4725-2379-2 311 $a1-4411-3941-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aTitle; Copy right; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Contemporary Pastoral Elegy; Pastoral Elegy Today; The Endangered Elegy; Why Pastoral Elegy?; What Happens in a Pastoral Elegy?; Social Pastoral Elegy; Notes; 1 Inheritance and Commemoration: Memorial Landscapes in Michael Longley's Poetry; 'Betweenness' and the Nature of Memory; Pastoral Elegy and War; The Consoling Image; Pastoral Elegy and Communal Remembrance; Closed and Open Form; Notes; 2 Community Poetry 1: Pastoral Elegy in Ted Hughes's Remains of Elmet, Moortown Diary and River 327 $aCommunal Forms: Eclogue, Pastoral Elegy and Reverse Pastoral ElegyRemains of Elmet; The Farmer Poet: Animal Elegy in Moortown Diary; Pastoral and Conservation: River; Notes; 3 Community Poetry 2: Pastoral Elegy in Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters; Exorcism and the Use of Communal Myth; Fate Narratives and Exoneration; Violation and Peace; Notes; 4 Leaving Home: Seamus Heaney's Parental Elegies; Maternal Pietas in 'Clearances'; From Actual to Virtual Landscapes; Paternal Elegy: Making Contact with the Father; Notes; 5 Pastoral and Aftermath: Seamus Heaney 327 $aPastoral and Aftermath: The Virgilian ModelPastoral Elegy and Restoration; Pastoral Elegy and Artistic Responsibility; Notes; 6 'Routine Periodic Faunal Extinctions': Peter Reading's Ecological Elegies1; Ecological Elegy and Intimacy; Anti-Pastoral Elegy in C.; Environmental Degeneration; Economics and Ecology in Perduta Gente; Elegy and Ecological Ethics in Faunal; Notes; 7 Contemporary Female Poets and Pastoral Elegy; Male and Female Mourning; Women and Irish National Elegy: Boland and Ni? Dhomhnaill; Varieties of Female Pastoral Elegy: Meehan and Shuttle; Notes 327 $a8 Grief Brought to Numbers: Paul Muldoon's Circular ElegiesRhyme and Shape: Elegy and Cancerous Form; Pastoral Landscape and Oedipal Navigation: 'Yarrow'; Alternative Lives: Self-Elegy; Anti-Elegy: 'The Stoic'; Notes; 9 The Ethics of Pastoral Elegy: Douglas Dunn and Christopher Reid; The Ethics of Mourning in Elegies; The Loss of the Pastoral State in Elegies; Consolation and the Verdict of Reality; Pastoral Necessity in A Scattering; The Flowering of Grief; Notes; Conclusion: The Future of Pastoral Elegy; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aDefying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, Iain Twiddy reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Douglas Dunn and Peter Reading.As Twiddy outlines the development of the form, he identifies its characteristics and functions. But more importantly his study accounts for the enduring appeal of the pastoral elegy, why poets look to its conventions during times of personal distress and social disharmony, and how it allows them to recover from grief, loss and destruction. Informed by 410 0$aContinuum literary studies. 606 $aPastoral poetry, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aElegiac poetry, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish poetry$xIrish authors$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aPastoral poetry, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aElegiac poetry, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xIrish authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a821/.9109 700 $aTwiddy$b Iain$01579736 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789931303321 996 $aPastoral elegy in contemporary British and Irish poetry$93860031 997 $aUNINA