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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... identity by means of that story . " 18 3.2 Mediacy There is one further prerequisite for the complete description of the struc- ture of narrative sequentiality : we must specify the forms and entities that mediate the happenings on the ...
... identity as it relates to his role in the love situation . Wyatt's poem clearly engages with this schema , but it does so in an unconventional manner , deviating from the conventions of Petrarchan love in both its form and , above all ...
... Identity and Representation in Elizabethan England ( Oxford ) . Greenblatt , Stephen ( 1980 ) . Renaissance Self - Fashioning : From More to Shake- speare ( Chicago and London ) , 115–56 . Gus , Donald L. ( 1974 ) . " Wyatt's ...
... identity in this context ( see below ) . 2 The homage script implicitly activated by the sonnet is manifested in a succession of statements . The speaker asserts the constancy and sincerity of his allegiance to and love for his friend ...
... identity of the speaker from that of a friend to that of a poet . This change in role triggers a corresponding recoding of the thematic frame of reference , a change of frame from the relationship of friend- ship / patronage to the ...
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 |