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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... Song of Songs, stems from such a culture. In his analysis of this prototypical text Metzeltin distinguishes a series of obligatory and optional narratemes (distinctive elements in the narrative structure). In the course of time, the ...
... Song of Songs, stems from such a culture. In his analysis of this prototypical text Metzeltin distinguishes a series of obligatory and optional narratemes (distinctive elements in the narrative structure). In the course of time, the ...
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... song to be sung ” , as in the “ songs in a musical ” ( Cuddon 481 ) ; b ) a less narrow meaning in which ' lyric poetry ' is distinguished from “ narrative or dramatic verse of any kind ” ( Cuddon 481 ) , but shares the criterion of ...
... song to be sung ” , as in the “ songs in a musical ” ( Cuddon 481 ) ; b ) a less narrow meaning in which ' lyric poetry ' is distinguished from “ narrative or dramatic verse of any kind ” ( Cuddon 481 ) , but shares the criterion of ...
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... song-like texts, this criterion is questionable in an age in which most poems are read rather than recited, and it is obvi- ously inappropriate for visual poetry, which relies exclusively on a written transmission, as well as for all ...
... song-like texts, this criterion is questionable in an age in which most poems are read rather than recited, and it is obvi- ously inappropriate for visual poetry, which relies exclusively on a written transmission, as well as for all ...
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... Song”, a poem which is an example that shows all the aforementioned characteristics, including, to a certain extent, even no. 1, since the title at least suggests an oral performativity of the text and moreover points to the original ...
... Song”, a poem which is an example that shows all the aforementioned characteristics, including, to a certain extent, even no. 1, since the title at least suggests an oral performativity of the text and moreover points to the original ...
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New Approaches to the Lyric Eva Müller-Zettelmann, Margarete Rubik. Song When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops ...
New Approaches to the Lyric Eva Müller-Zettelmann, Margarete Rubik. Song When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops ...
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