The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry: Studies in English Poetry from the 16th to the 20th CenturyThis study offers a fresh approach to the theory and practice of poetry criticism from a narratological perspective. Arguing that lyric poems share basic constituents of narration with prose fiction, namely temporal sequentiality of events and verbal mediation, the authors propose the transgeneric application of narratology to the poetic genre with the aim of utilizing the sophisticated framework of narratological categories for a more precise and complex modeling of the poetic text. On this basis, the study provides a new impetus to the neglected field of poetic theory as well as to methodology. The practical value of such an approach is then demonstrated by detailed model analyses of canonical English poems from all major periods between the 16th and the 20th centuries. The comparative discussion of these analyses draws general conclusions about the specifics of narrative structures in lyric poetry in contrast to prose fiction. |
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... John Donne : " The Canonization " ( Jens Kiefer ) .......... 23 ...... 35 5 Andrew Marvell : " To His Coy Mistress " ( Peter Hühn ) ........ 45 6 Jonathan Swift : " Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift " ( Jens Kiefer ) ........... 57 7 ...
... ” , in : Dieter Mehl and Wolfgang Weiß ( eds ) , Shakespeares Sonette in europäischen Perspektiven : Ein Symposium ( Münster and Hamburg ) , 95–113 . Jens Kiefer 4 John Donne : " The Canonization " Shakespeare : Sonnet 107 33.
... John Donne : " The Canonization " 5 10 15 20 25 30 FOR God's sake hold your tongue , and let me love , Or chide my palsy , or my gout , My five gray hairs , or ruin'd fortune flout , With wealth your state ... John Donne: "The Canonization"
... John Donne ( 1983 ) . The Songs and Sonnets of John Donne , ed . Theodore Redpath ( Lon- don ) , 237-238 . John Donne ( 1572–1631 ) . The poem is thought to have been composed after 1603 and was first printed in 1633 . The treatment of ...
... makes statements about his survival in public memory after his death by giving words to speakers imagined by him ( see pp . 57-78 , 79–94 ) . 3 In the rhetorical questions of the second stanza , John Donne : The Canonization 37.
Contents
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Verses on the Death of Dr Swift | 57 |
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | 79 |
Kubla Khan | 95 |
Promises like PieCrust | 139 |
The Voice | 147 |
Portrait of a Lady | 157 |
The Second Coming | 177 |
Man and Bat | 187 |
I Remember I Remember | 201 |
Ode to Suburbia | 213 |
Fiction | 223 |
Ode on Melancholy | 111 |
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxeds Church | 125 |
The Results of the Analyses and Their Implications for Narratology and the Theory and Analysis of Poetry | 233 |