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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... human voice to counteract the commercialisation and political abuse of language. In his poetry, Mallarmé also searched for a language liberated from ideological designs and renounced all stereotypes proliferating in daily communication ...
... human voice to counteract the commercialisation and political abuse of language. In his poetry, Mallarmé also searched for a language liberated from ideological designs and renounced all stereotypes proliferating in daily communication ...
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... human voice” – this opening sentence of Jon Stallworthy's essay on “Versification” in the Norton Anthology of Poetry (1403) points to a first characteristic that has frequently been mentioned: the lyric as an at least potentially oral ...
... human voice” – this opening sentence of Jon Stallworthy's essay on “Versification” in the Norton Anthology of Poetry (1403) points to a first characteristic that has frequently been mentioned: the lyric as an at least potentially oral ...
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... ( human or anthropomorphic ) conscious- ness and of gaining access to it through the text can be linked to the possibility of a rudi- mentary aesthetic illusion triggered by lyric poetry ( cf. Wolf “ Aesthetic illusion ” ; Müller ...
... ( human or anthropomorphic ) conscious- ness and of gaining access to it through the text can be linked to the possibility of a rudi- mentary aesthetic illusion triggered by lyric poetry ( cf. Wolf “ Aesthetic illusion ” ; Müller ...
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... human mind without having to justify either the access to, or the content of, that mind, as would, for instance, usually be the case in the stream-of-consciousness novel (cf. trait no. 6); • the lyric enables poets to use this ...
... human mind without having to justify either the access to, or the content of, that mind, as would, for instance, usually be the case in the stream-of-consciousness novel (cf. trait no. 6); • the lyric enables poets to use this ...
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... human being from the state of a “ fretting soul ” ( 1. 3 ) bound to the ground by “ [ u ] ncertain [ ty ] ” ( 1. 3 ) and “ obeisance ” ( 1. 4 ) , but who succeeded in “ disguise [ ing ] ” ( 1. 1 ) his probably unorthodox development and ...
... human being from the state of a “ fretting soul ” ( 1. 3 ) bound to the ground by “ [ u ] ncertain [ ty ] ” ( 1. 3 ) and “ obeisance ” ( 1. 4 ) , but who succeeded in “ disguise [ ing ] ” ( 1. 1 ) his probably unorthodox development and ...
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