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Contents Acknowledgements vii Part One The Daughter’s Way Introduction Who Could Not Sing: Elegy and Its (Female) Discontents 3 1 Elegy and Authority: The Daughter’s Way 31 Part Two Daughters of Jove, Daughters of Job Canadian Modernism’s Bloody-Minded Women 2 Jove’s Daughter: Dorothy Livesay’s Elegiac Daughteronomy 55 3 “So Much Militia Routed in the Man”: P. K. Page’s Military Fathers 77 4 “Absence, Havoc”: Jay Macpherson’s Rebellious Daughters 95 Part Three Differently Conceived Nations The Mourner’s Journey 5 “Do What You Are Good At”: Margaret Atwood’s Authorizing Elegies 127 6 The Pilgrim and the Riddle: Anne Carson’s “The Anthropology of Water” 151 7 Gateway Politics, Grief Poetics: West Meets West in Kristjana Gunnars’s Zero Hour 171 Part Four Furies and Filles de la Sagesse Language and Difference at Century’s End 8 Signature, Inheritance, Inquiry: Lola Lemire Tostevin’s Cartouches 187 9 Elegy of Refusal: Erin Mouré’s Furious 209 Conclusion: From the Water 235 Works Cited 239 Index 255 This page intentionally left blank ...