The Contemporary Elegy in World Literature - Hardcover

by Adele Bardazzi (Volume Editor), Roberto Binetti (Volume Editor), Jonathan Culler (Volume Editor)

This volume navigates the entangled expressions of mourning across languages, cultures, and traditions, shedding light on the evolving shapes and discourses of contemporary elegy in world literature. By adopting a transnational approach, this collection offers a much needed conceptualization of what elegy has become today.

Contributors are Nick Admussen, Adele Bardazzi, Roberto Binetti, Emily Drumsta, Francesco Giusti, Roberto Gaudioso, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Karen Leeder, Brandon Menke, Jahan Ramazani, Rachel Elizabeth Robinson, David Sherman and Ivanna Sang Een Yi.

Author Biography

Adele Bardazzi, DPhil (Oxon) is Assistant Professor in Italian Studies at the University of Utrecht and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research delves into issues of form and interpretation, poetry and poetics, lyric theory, gender and women's studies. Among her past and forthcoming publications are: Eugenio Montale: A Poetics of Mourning (2022); Elegy Today: Resistance, Revision, Re-Mapping (2023); Weaving Media in Modern and Contemporary Italian Poetry (2023);Conglomerates: Andrea Zanzotto's Poetic Clusters; Textile Poetics of Entanglement (Brill); and The Poetics of Fabric. She is founder of the Weaving Media Network, and co-founder of Italian Poetry Today and Non solo muse.
Roberto Binetti, DPhil (Oxon), is Research Fellow at the University of Padua, working on a project on nuclear anxiety in 20th-century lyric poetry. His research focuses on modern and contemporary poetry, with an emphasis on the relationship between the lyric and cultural history. Among his past and forthcoming publications are: Elegy Today. Resistance, Revision, Re-Mapping (2023); Poetics of Becoming: Women's Poetry in Italy's Long Seventies; Conglomerates: Andrea Zanzotto's Poetic Clusters; La domanda dell'inconscio: Lingua e vita interiore nella poesia di Amelia Rosselli e Andrea Zanzotto; and Anne Carson: letteratura liquida. He is co-founder of Italian Poetry Today and Non solo muse.
Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor Emeritus of English at Cornell University. His research is in the fields of structuralism, literary theory and literary criticism. He is the author of Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature (1975) and Theory of the Lyric (2015).