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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... existence marked by suffering and transitoriness to a permanent state of perfect happiness . Christianity suggests the presence of a script specifying the following schema for future developments : turning away from transitory life and ...
... existence . The product is the Bishop's prospective narrative about how he will live on in Saint Praxed's Church after his death . The elements of this sequence appear in two ( successive ) phases . The first phase prepares the way for ...
... existence and identity in and by means of art , the Bishop's prospective narrative of his plans concentrates ( apart from the position , which has al- ready been decided ) on the material and visual embellishments to be used for and in ...
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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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