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This body of death : form and decay in early modern lyric / Eileen Sperry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sperry, Eileen, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lyric poetry--History and criticism.
- Lyric poetry.
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Death in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- ""How lyric poetry allows us to rethink death not as an event but as a process of decay to reimagine the body as not having a terminal endpoint (death) but as being in the process of mortality"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: World enough and time
- Dying well
- Lyric prosthesis
- Time of death
- Intimacies of decay
- Epilogue: Not alone.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sperry, Eileen. This body of death.
- ISBN:
- 9781501784323
- 1501784323
- 9781501784293
- 1501784293
- OCLC:
- 1550587145
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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