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001 2008031560
003 DLC
005 20100119130301.0
008 080716s2009 lau b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2008031560
020 $a9780807133927 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0807133922 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn236082505
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDXCP$dC#P$dCDX$dBWX$dBTCTA$dVVC$dDLC
050 00 $aPS374.G75$bV53 2009
082 00 $a810.9/353$222
100 1 $aVickery, John B.
245 14 $aThe prose elegy :$ban exploration of modern American and British fiction /$cJohn B. Vickery.
260 $aBaton Rouge :$bLouisiana State University Press,$cc2009.
300 $a192 p. ;$c23 cm.
505 0 $aIntroduction : major elegiac changes -- Elegies of family and love. Loss of the ideal : James Agee's A death in the family ; Failure as a loss : John Updike's The centaur ; Generational critiques : Virginia Woolf's The years and William Faulkner's Sartoris ; Familial disintegration : James Joyce's Dubliners and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon revisited" ; The loss of romantic love : Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises and James Baldwin's Giovanni's room ; Marriage as cultural change : Henry James's The portrait of a lady and Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to arms ; Marriage as the end of love : F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the night and John Updike's Too far to go -- Cultural and philosophical elegies. Modernism on culture and history : William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Ford Madox Ford's Parade's end, and others ; Bifocal time : Virginia Woolf's The years and To the lighthouse ; 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 -- A coda : continuity and innovation.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 181-186) and index.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aGrief in literature.
650 0 $aLoss (Psychology) in literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0823/2008031560.html