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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... Drama : Theory and Practice 173 Margarete Rubik In Deep Waters . Or : What's the Difference between Drowning in Poetry and in Prose ? 189 Manfred Pfister " As an unperfect actor on the stage " : Notes Towards a Definition of Performance ...
... Drama : Theory and Practice 173 Margarete Rubik In Deep Waters . Or : What's the Difference between Drowning in Poetry and in Prose ? 189 Manfred Pfister " As an unperfect actor on the stage " : Notes Towards a Definition of Performance ...
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... drama or the narra- tive” (Warning 17f., our translation). This claim, from 1997, demonstrates clearly one of the great paradoxes of modern literary theory. Despite the fact that for the last thirty years we have witnessed a search for ...
... drama or the narra- tive” (Warning 17f., our translation). This claim, from 1997, demonstrates clearly one of the great paradoxes of modern literary theory. Despite the fact that for the last thirty years we have witnessed a search for ...
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... lyric inserts into narrative or dramatic texts – a phenomenon usually ignored by the theory of poetry, which tends to concentrate on the poem as an isolated text. In novels, such insertions of lyric poetry are usually Introduction 11.
... lyric inserts into narrative or dramatic texts – a phenomenon usually ignored by the theory of poetry, which tends to concentrate on the poem as an isolated text. In novels, such insertions of lyric poetry are usually Introduction 11.
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... drama. Drawing upon concepts of cognitive poetics and reader-response theory Margarete Rubik adopts a radically sceptical attitude towards traditional genre distinctions and the supposed intuitive ability of readers to recognise a poem ...
... drama. Drawing upon concepts of cognitive poetics and reader-response theory Margarete Rubik adopts a radically sceptical attitude towards traditional genre distinctions and the supposed intuitive ability of readers to recognise a poem ...
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... dramatic elements, which are singled out and discussed by Abad. She then adopts a pragmatic ap- proach to the poem and analyses the constituents of the interactive situation created in Duffy's sonnet: the speaking subject (the lyric ...
... dramatic elements, which are singled out and discussed by Abad. She then adopts a pragmatic ap- proach to the poem and analyses the constituents of the interactive situation created in Duffy's sonnet: the speaking subject (the lyric ...
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