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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... Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint , ed . John Kerrigan ( Harmondsworth ) , 130 . William Shakespeare ( 1564–1616 ) . The sonnet was first published in 1609 . 1 Context and Structure William Shakespeare's cycle of sonnets , which includes ...
... Sonnet 107 in the context of a process of alienation caused by the friend's hurtful behaviour and increasing with- drawal ( cf. Sonnets 87-96 in particular ) . If we consider this context in our analysis , both the eventfulness of the ...
... Sonnet 107 lies in its performative function . The act of narration takes place in the middle of an incomplete progress that narration serves to extend and complete . This performativity is further intensified by the speaker's self ...
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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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