دورية أكاديمية
"Your Tiny White Vests, Unworn": Contemporary Elegies of Maternal Loss.
| العنوان: | "Your Tiny White Vests, Unworn": Contemporary Elegies of Maternal Loss. |
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| المؤلفون: | Whitehead A |
| المصدر: | Literature and medicine [Lit Med] 2023; Vol. 41 (2), pp. 372-390. |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 8309346 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1080-6571 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 02789671 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Lit Med Subsets: MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Publication: Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press Original Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press, 1982- |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Poetry as Topic* , Medicine in Literature*, Humans ; Female ; Grief |
| مستخلص: | This essay asks whether poetry can articulate the experience of maternal loss, paying particular attention to questions of form. Focusing on two British poetry collections, Rebecca Goss's Her Birth (2013) and Karen McCarthy Woolf's An Aviary of Small Birds (2014), I argue that the contemporary elegy is currently being reshaped to explore the grief of losing a baby, and to bear witness to a life briefly lived. Drawing on Caroline Levine's emphasis on the affordances of form, the essay first examines these elegies' aural qualities thorugh the motif of the echo. Next I attend to the shaping of the poems, and how their word placement gives weight to the experience of baby loss. Finally, I consider how the modes of address at the end of the two collections negotiate the possibility of moving forward. |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20240425 Date Completed: 20240425 Latest Revision: 20240425 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20240425 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/lm.2023.a921568 |
| PMID: | 38661899 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1080-6571 |
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| DOI: | 10.1353/lm.2023.a921568 |