Modern Elegy Flashcards
1
Q
Ramazani
A
Elegy ‘develops by feeding off new deaths, including the body of its own traditions’
Mourning as unresolved melancholia
2
Q
Kennedy
A
modern ‘pervasive cultural melancholy’
3
Q
Baudrillard and Kennedy
A
Modernity is ‘the dilution of history as event’ - Kennedy argues this means we experience each ‘single event as total rupture’
