1670-1760
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Product details
- ISBN 9783631659250
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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When Kersti Berg died in 1735, she was honoured with an obituary in the form of a poetic epitaph composed by Olof von Dalin. A modern-day reader can easily get the impression that Dalin’s poem is an example of a funerary poem for a human being – one of the eighteenth century’s most common poetic genres. Kersti Berg, however, was a dog, and Dalin’s poem belongs to another genre, namely, the animal epitaph. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries this was a frequently practised form of poetry which could be used for a great many purposes, from imitations of ancient originals to masked poems composed to convey a political message or to further the writer’s career.
Daniel Möller has a doctorate in literature from Lund University, Sweden, where he is associate professor and does research on early modern literature.
