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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... expectations , breaking with the structure of the apparent script ) . Its eventfulness is higher because of the way in which the protagonist reacts to the onset of depression and be- cause of the outcome of his experience . The ...
... expectations regarding the future , and those who make promises may subsequently feel that the need to fulfil such expectations has stripped them of their freedom . The speak- er's imperatives produce a negatively coloured image of her ...
... expectations raised by the script and the fact that they affect the speaker's definition of himself . For a number of reasons , the second event , the one that affects the speaker in the present , has a higher level of eventfulness ...
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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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