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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... linguistic medium so consistently forced beyond its communicative limits, and nowhere else does form so firmly refuse to be monopolised by reference. Poetry's prevailing “priority of the linguistic form” (Adorno 85, our translation) ...
... linguistic medium so consistently forced beyond its communicative limits, and nowhere else does form so firmly refuse to be monopolised by reference. Poetry's prevailing “priority of the linguistic form” (Adorno 85, our translation) ...
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... linguistic artefacts as an intrinsic characteristic of poetic speech (cf. Jakobson 558). What effects do these notions of the emotionality and heightened artificiality of the poetic genre have on the concrete analysis of poetic texts ...
... linguistic artefacts as an intrinsic characteristic of poetic speech (cf. Jakobson 558). What effects do these notions of the emotionality and heightened artificiality of the poetic genre have on the concrete analysis of poetic texts ...
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... linguistics: only through the application of familiar world and text schemata can the incidents in texts be transformed into a meaningful narrative sequence. Frames and their constituent scripts, however, remain largely implicit in ...
... linguistics: only through the application of familiar world and text schemata can the incidents in texts be transformed into a meaningful narrative sequence. Frames and their constituent scripts, however, remain largely implicit in ...
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... linguistic deviation), which we normally associate with the lyric. Short stories, in particular, have indeed often been defined in terms reminiscent of poetry. Nonetheless we have been conditioned to look for different things in poetry ...
... linguistic deviation), which we normally associate with the lyric. Short stories, in particular, have indeed often been defined in terms reminiscent of poetry. Nonetheless we have been conditioned to look for different things in poetry ...
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... linguistic categories for a methodical description of contemporary poems. She first focuses on the postmodern emphasis on generic 'impurity' (i.e., the simultaneous respect for and subversion of the natural genres), which often results ...
... linguistic categories for a methodical description of contemporary poems. She first focuses on the postmodern emphasis on generic 'impurity' (i.e., the simultaneous respect for and subversion of the natural genres), which often results ...
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