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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... feel emo- tionally underprivileged ' ( 1. 20 ) makes clear that this speaker , unlike that in Wyatt's poem , is aware of his position relative to his former lover . Gavin Ewart : " They flee from me that sometime did me seek " AT this ...
... feel immeasurably at peace , and find the world To be wonderful and youthful , after all . " THE Voice returns like the insistent out - of - tune Of a broken violin on an August afternoon : " I am always sure that you understand My ...
... feels injured by that work . This sequence structure is partially varied to the extent that plaintiff and defendant can exchange places : the defendants can become plaintiffs who feel libelled and them- selves take action against an ...
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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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