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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... nature cannot be contained by genre borderlines. For her, the critical urge to impose clear-cut genre distinctions is reminiscent of the infantile act of splitting off 'bad' parts of the self and projecting the split-off parts onto the ...
... nature cannot be contained by genre borderlines. For her, the critical urge to impose clear-cut genre distinctions is reminiscent of the infantile act of splitting off 'bad' parts of the self and projecting the split-off parts onto the ...
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... natural genres), which often results in the production of hybrid texts in which generic constituents are fused but still kept visible. Indeed, Duffy's poem contains lyric, narrative and dramatic elements, which are singled out and ...
... natural genres), which often results in the production of hybrid texts in which generic constituents are fused but still kept visible. Indeed, Duffy's poem contains lyric, narrative and dramatic elements, which are singled out and ...
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... natural forms of poesy' (“Naturformen der Poesie” 187). This ternary differentiation, which can be traced back to Charles Batteux's Les Beaux-Arts réduits à un même principe (1746)2, was subse- quently taken up by innumerable scholars ...
... natural forms of poesy' (“Naturformen der Poesie” 187). This ternary differentiation, which can be traced back to Charles Batteux's Les Beaux-Arts réduits à un même principe (1746)2, was subse- quently taken up by innumerable scholars ...
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... nature The terminological development and the ensuing heterogeneity of the texts that have been called ' poems ' create enormous problems for the attempts that have been made at establish- ing systematic criteria for the lyric . This ...
... nature The terminological development and the ensuing heterogeneity of the texts that have been called ' poems ' create enormous problems for the attempts that have been made at establish- ing systematic criteria for the lyric . This ...
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... nature of constituting an ' anti - discourse ' ( “ Lyrik ist wesentlich Anti - Diskurs ” [ Stierle 514 ] ) , or as its ' heightened artificiality ' ( see Nünning and Nünning 47 ) and structural overdetermination ( “ Überstrukturierung ...
... nature of constituting an ' anti - discourse ' ( “ Lyrik ist wesentlich Anti - Diskurs ” [ Stierle 514 ] ) , or as its ' heightened artificiality ' ( see Nünning and Nünning 47 ) and structural overdetermination ( “ Überstrukturierung ...
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