The anti-elegy or the loss of meaning of the future
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Anti-elegy, Modern elegy, Death, Mourning, GuiltAbstract
Discussion of the qualities of modern elegy or anti-elegy, as a melancholic attitude permeating literary and artistic genres. Following the lesson of Jahan Ramazani (1994), I point to the resistance to consolation as the main quality of modern elegy in order to deal with the incomprehensible number of unfortunate mishaps in modernity. The anti-elegy is tainted with the impossibility of preserving separately an untouched space, ideally as the pastoral bucolic world, due to the speed and pressure of modern life; the suppression of mourning is also not sought, that of a healthy transition from the bond with the deceased to the bond with others who are still alive, as the space for mourning also serves as a locus of irony and derision, due to the excess of its mediatic presentation. Finally, I understand that our era of catastrophe finds its expression in anti-elegy as pornography of announced mourning, as we increasingly want to move away from future mourning, despite its inexorability.References
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