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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... define the lyric systematically in the context of the three traditional literary genres . * Instead , it will be proposed that the place of the lyric relative to the epic and dramatic genres should be de- fined in terms of text theory ...
... define himself by living it . This attempt at self - stimulation would fall flat if the speaker were too self ... definition . The transformation of the speaker into one of several ' cloudy trophies ' arrayed in the temple of Melancholy ...
... define the overall story that is narrated in ' Man and Bat ' . The removal of the bat as something strange and different is only one side of the narrative progression in the poem . On the other , contrast- ing side , the speaker ...
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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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