Theory Into Poetry: New Approaches to the LyricEva Müller-Zettelmann, Margarete Rubik At the beginning of the 21st century, there is still no generally accepted comprehensive definition of the lyric or differentiated modern toolkit for its analysis. The reception of poetry is largely characterised either by an empathetic identification of critics with the lyric persona or by exclusive interest in formal patterning. The present volume seeks to remedy this deficit. All the contributors 'theorise' the lyric to overcome the impasse of an impressionistic and narrowly formalistic critical debate on the genre. Their papers focus on a variety of different questions: the problem of establishing a framework for definition and classification; the search for dynamic and potent critical approaches; investigations of poetry's cultural performance and its fundamental relevance for the construction of group cohesion. The essays collected in this volume offer a consciously polyphonic range of theories and interpretations, suggesting to the reader a variety of theoretical frameworks and practical illustrations of how a discussion of poetry may be firmly grounded in modern literary theory. |
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... death is enshrined in the carnivalesque madness of her verse, its disruptive logic and subversive intertextuality. It was impossible to sidestep the question of contin- gency – “the sense that there is something gratuitous or contingent ...
... death is enshrined in the carnivalesque madness of her verse, its disruptive logic and subversive intertextuality. It was impossible to sidestep the question of contin- gency – “the sense that there is something gratuitous or contingent ...
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... death of the author , and ( b ) a fear of fiction pervading philosophy of mind.4 How Dead Is the Poet ? In the light of the postmodern breach with expressive and experiential concepts of art brought about almost four decades ago when ...
... death of the author , and ( b ) a fear of fiction pervading philosophy of mind.4 How Dead Is the Poet ? In the light of the postmodern breach with expressive and experiential concepts of art brought about almost four decades ago when ...
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... death simply ends : “ This is all there is to the fact that there will be no one living who will be me . Questions of poetic consciousness must there- fore be raised against the background of these developments rather than by fighting ...
... death simply ends : “ This is all there is to the fact that there will be no one living who will be me . Questions of poetic consciousness must there- fore be raised against the background of these developments rather than by fighting ...
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... death We ardly dror a peaceful breath . ( st . 1 , The Rude Potato 17 ) An equally subversive process is at work in Phoebe Hesketh's “ Skeleton Bride ” , where the decayed body tempts its fleshly lover in a grim travesty : I come to you ...
... death We ardly dror a peaceful breath . ( st . 1 , The Rude Potato 17 ) An equally subversive process is at work in Phoebe Hesketh's “ Skeleton Bride ” , where the decayed body tempts its fleshly lover in a grim travesty : I come to you ...
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... death; “The Bat” is an example of the apocalyptic mode particularly prominent in war- time poetry, and the mode of Cornford's “Autumn Blitz” is pastoral, equally conspicuous in the poetry of the period, contrasting peaceful nature ...
... death; “The Bat” is an example of the apocalyptic mode particularly prominent in war- time poetry, and the mode of Cornford's “Autumn Blitz” is pastoral, equally conspicuous in the poetry of the period, contrasting peaceful nature ...
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