Session Details

Wednesday, 28 December

278. New Approaches to Elegy

3:30–4:45 p.m., Virginia Suite A, Marriott

A special session

Presiding: R. Clifton Spargo, Marquette Univ.

1. “‘What’s Left Behind’: Jorie Graham’s Recovery of the Dead,” Lisa Kim Perdigao, Florida Inst. of Tech.

2. “Spatial Displacements: Apparitions and the Evasion of Grief in Susan Howe’s The Midnight,” Ann Keniston, Univ. of Nevada, Reno

3. “‘Not Forgotten . . . at the Proper Time’: Geoffrey Hill, the Holocaust, and the Elegiacs of Postmodernity,” R. Clifton Spargo

Respondent: Jahan Ramazani, Univ. of Virginia

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