Towards a poetics of overtakelessness : the work of contemporary elegy in the writing of five North American poets
This thesis addresses a condition of ‘overtakelessness’ – a word used by Emily Dickinson to refer to the irretrievability of the dead – developing it as a conceptual framework to explore contemporary elegy in the work of five North American poets: Susan Howe, Mary Jo Bang, Anne Carson, Dean Young, a...
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Birkbeck (University of London)
2015
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636571 |