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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... close and personal family ties among the dead villagers . This emphasis on close social relationships establishes a link between the 4 Cf. Brady ( 1965 ) on the central role of perspective in Gray's ' Elegy ' . 5 McCarthy's view ( 1997 ...
... close : that conflagration of my church 35 - What then ? So much was saved if aught were missed ! - My sons , ye would not be my death ? Go dig The white - grape vineyard where the oil - press stood , Drop water gently till the surface ...
... close relationship with heaven ( implied by his belief that the treetops were close to the sky ) with the rational knowledge of the adult who sees the child's experience for the illusion and ignorance it was ( ' It was a childish ...
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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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