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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... attempt to make his addressee consent to his love is con- fined to the first two stanzas alone . His strategy ... attempts to convince his ad- dressee of his view in the first two stanzas , the almost aggressive tone of his words shows ...
... attempt to conceal the fact that the speaker is ad- dressing himself and prompting himself to adopt the role of protagonist in the story to make a certain way of life a reality and define himself by living it . This attempt at self ...
... attempt to come to terms with his problematic situation by linguistic means . Unlike the soliloquy , an expres- sion ... attempts to come to terms with the situation and crisis by purely linguistic means . These attempts often take the ...
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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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