{"product_id":"the-daughters-way-tanis-macdonald-9781554585212","title":"The Daughter's Way: Canadian Women's Paternal Elegies","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Daughter's Way\u003c\/i\u003e investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women's elegies with a special emphasis on the father's death as a literary and political watershed. The book examines the work of Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Jay Macpherson, Margaret Atwood, Kristjana Gunnars, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Anne Carson, and Erin Mouré as elegiac daughteronomies--literary artifacts of mourning that grow from the poets' investigation into the function and limitations of elegiac convention. Some poets treat the father as a metaphor for socio-political power, while others explore more personal iterations of loss, but all the poets in \u003ci\u003eThe Daughter's Way\u003c\/i\u003e seek to redefine daughterly duty in a contemporary context by challenging elegiac tradition through questions of genre and gender. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Beginning with psychoanalytical theories of filiation, inheritance, and mourning as they are complicated by feminist challenges to theories of kinship and citizenship, \u003ci\u003eThe Daughter's Way\u003c\/i\u003e debates the efficacy of the literary \"work of mourning\" in twentieth-century Canadian poetry. By investigating the way a daughter's filial piety performs and sometimes reconfigures such work, and situating melancholia as a creative force in women's elegies, the book considers how elegies inquire into the rhetoric of mourning as it is complicated by father-daughter kinship. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tanis MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 155458521X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781554585212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wilfrid Laurier University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Tanis MacDonald","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44124860973311,"sku":"9781554585212","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d62f885e-8c9b-42dc-a7a1-24a0f2d22557.jpg?v=1687439248","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-daughters-way-tanis-macdonald-9781554585212","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}