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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... identified as the scripts of the Tennyson and Marvell poems respectively . Identifying the frame allows a reader to draw together , coherently and in a primarily static sense , the situationally and / or thematically significant ...
... identified . Two occurrences are portrayed as events ( specifically , events in happen- ings ) experienced by the speaker : the absence of the women , which con- trasts with his expectations or his desires , and the erotic memory pre ...
... identified as the script with which the frame is combined . The happenings of Shakespeare's Sonnet 107 have three components : the speaker's private friendship , which , it is feared , is under threat ( for unknown reasons ) but ...
... identification of life with the poem is less eventful than the change of frame with which the speaker suddenly shifts the thematic focus of the poem from his role as a friend to his role as a poet who assures himself of his own ...
... identified at this point as the general thematic context governing the communication situation . The speaker goes on to address his interlocutor , initially in an almost aggres- sive manner , with the intention of defending himself ...
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 |