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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... Kubla Khan ' in Christabel ; Kubla Khan , A Vision ; The Pains of Sleep in 1816 ( see Keach 1997 : 566 ) . ' The Pains of Sleep ' stands in direct contrast to ' Kubla Khan ' in that it deals with tormented hellish visions rather than ...
... Kubla Khan ' , the text printed after it . 3 ' Kubla Khan ' : The Poem Itself The poem , which is described as a ' fragment ' , consists of two sequences that engage with the creative process in different ways , first with Kubla Khan's ...
... Kubla Khan " " , in : Roland Hagenbüchle and Jospeh T. Swann ( eds ) , Poetic Knowledge : Circumference and Centre ( Bonn ) , 42-50 . Chayes , Irene H. ( 1966 ) . " Kubla Khan ' and the Creative Process " , in : Studies in Romanticism 6 ...
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The Theory and Methodology of the Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry Peter Hühn and Jörg Schönert | 1 |
They flee from me Jens Kiefer | 15 |
Sonnet 107 Peter Hühn | 23 |
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