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f4752f77x8x	Nathaniel R. Myers	Death Matters: Lyric, Affect, and Ethics in British and Irish Elegy, 1960-2012	1904		.txt	text/plain	327	7	21	The scholarly turn to affect has begun to collapse distinctions between cultural networks of affect and the human bodies they influence; my analysis focuses on the lyric as one particular linguistic site in which to discern this intersection of the cultural and the somatic, attending specifically to what Mutlu Konuk Blasing refers to as the affective materials of language: its affectively charged sounds and rhythms, and the poetic techniques that harness these affective charges through prosody, form, and poetic convention. In the ethical concerns voiced by the poets – which range from the aestheticization of death and violence to the potential profit motives (artistic, commercial) of writing elegy – as well as in the formal techniques that can either mitigate these ethical concerns or, in some cases, generate them, these elegies betray the inextricability of private and cultural modes of grief.	cache/f4752f77x8x.txt	txt/f4752f77x8x.txt