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elegist

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el·e·gist  (l-jst)
n.
The composer of an elegy.
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Noun1.elegist - the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
poet - a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)


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Rahner was a master of muted irony, and von Balthasar a gifted elegist.
But Price is not an elegist of art history; in Dispersion, he calls for an art that may give Duchamp's question "new life" by positioning itself "within the material and discursive technologies of distributed media.
Constructions of "the feminine" as passive and "the masculine" as active spread deep roots throughout antiquity, from ancient Greek gynecological theory and Aristotle's characteristic depreciation of women to Catullus' strategies of abuse and the works of the Roman love elegists.
 
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