Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'

A Reading Guide

AvAnna Barton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Introduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem.In Memoriam is one of the most famous and influential poems of the 19th century. Composed over nearly three decades and spanning over 100 sections, it is one of the longest elegies in the English language. It is at once a deeply personal description of grief and a wide-ranging discussion of its age.This guide provides:• The full text of the poem;• Information about its cultural, historical and literary contexts;• Four different reading strategies for approaching the text;• Suggested seminar activities, assessments and module outlines for teachers and lecturers

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-03-05
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:461 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Reading Guides to Long Poems
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748641352

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Anna Barton is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield. Previous publications include, The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense (with James Williams) (2021), Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Liberal Though: Forms of Freedom (2017), In Memoriam: A Reading Guide (2012) and Tennyson’s Name: Identity and Responsibility in the Poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2008).

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...the study remains a thoughtful and interesting account, packed with essential background information, and lightly invoking, where necessary, Marxist, feminist or homosocial theory. In fact, given the prescriptive, 'beginner's' nature of the book, it is a credit to Barton to have turned it into a pleasant refresher's course even for the most well-read of Tennysonians. In other words, both students and teachers will find much here to enjoy.

Innehållsförteckning

Contents; Acknowledgements; Editions; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Mapping and Making; Part I: Monuments and Fragments; Part II: The In Memoriam Stanza; Part III: Remembering the Elegy; Chapter 2: The Poem; Part I: Outline; Part II: Poem; Chapter 3: The Guide; Theme I: Lost for Words; Theme II: Losing Touch; Theme III: Profit and Loss; Theme IV: Cycle and Ritual; Chapter 4: Contexts and Reception; Part I: Compositional Contexts; Part II: Scientific Contexts; Part III: Reviews and Anthologies; Part IV: Modernist Reactions; Chapter 5: Teaching the Text; Part I: Reading the Text ; Part II: Initial Responses; Part III: Teaching In Memoriam as a Victorian Text; Part IV: Thinking about Form; Part V: Module Outline ; Annotated Bibliography; Works Cited