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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... reference to contexts and world knowledge . Authors and readers , that is to say , can grasp or understand texts ... references to , for example , phenomena such as sea travel , growing old , or sexual love ) and from lit- erature and ...
... reference to pre - existent extra- or intertextual models ) be developed in a text - specific manner . An example of this is provided by the development of life as a chain of illusory triumphs over illusion in Joyce's A Portrait of the ...
... references to secondary literature have therefore been restricted to selected representative works . A second purpose of the analyses and of the concluding chapter is to use our narratological ap- proach to illustrate the distinctive ...
... reference for European love poetry . It also represents the central way of transmitting emotions in lyric poetry . The basic situation with which the Petrarchan conventions operate is that of a man wooing a socially superior lady in a ...
... references in it . However , the poem's political refer- ences affect its meaning only in so far as they allow the ... reference to the script is not made until some way into the poem , but this does not change the fact that the norm ...
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 |