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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... prototypical example of a linguistic artefact and (often for the first and last time) extensively discussed in introductory literature courses. Poetry is also deemed the one genre that most stubbornly defies the cold rationality of ...
... prototypical example of a linguistic artefact and (often for the first and last time) extensively discussed in introductory literature courses. Poetry is also deemed the one genre that most stubbornly defies the cold rationality of ...
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... prototypical courtship lyrics may lie in the rites by which pre-historic, semi-nomadic cul- tures tried to regulate fertility, thus giving certain codes of conduct in wooing a normative character. If we consider that the union of ...
... prototypical courtship lyrics may lie in the rites by which pre-historic, semi-nomadic cul- tures tried to regulate fertility, thus giving certain codes of conduct in wooing a normative character. If we consider that the union of ...
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... prototypical procedure , she has not exploited this facet of her conceptualization , e.g. by indicating historical prototypes of the lyric . Nevertheless , her approach seems to me the best that has hitherto been proposed and a very ...
... prototypical procedure , she has not exploited this facet of her conceptualization , e.g. by indicating historical prototypes of the lyric . Nevertheless , her approach seems to me the best that has hitherto been proposed and a very ...
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... prototypical tendencies cannot be avoided, as the cognitive nature of proto- types requires that both objects and recipients be taken into account. 39 For the concept of literary 'framing', which is used here and in the following in the ...
... prototypical tendencies cannot be avoided, as the cognitive nature of proto- types requires that both objects and recipients be taken into account. 39 For the concept of literary 'framing', which is used here and in the following in the ...
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... prototypical in that the lyric is here conceived of as a cognitive frame based on plurifactorial prototypes; apart from that it is also b) communicative in that it does not merely focus on textual traits but also on the 'sen- der' and ...
... prototypical in that the lyric is here conceived of as a cognitive frame based on plurifactorial prototypes; apart from that it is also b) communicative in that it does not merely focus on textual traits but also on the 'sen- der' and ...
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