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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... frame of reference , a change of frame from the relationship of friend- ship / patronage to the condition of being a poet , and also a redefinition of the implied script from one of homage to one of self - immortalization through ...
... frame of the happenings . In the context of this general frame , the lady's words ( in I ) model her meetings with the young man by means of the isotopies intimacy ( ' intimate ' , ' soul ' , 1. 10 ) and ex- clusiveness ( ' saved ...
... frame of love with the frame of power by having the speaker change the frame of reference when recapitulating his past ex- periences of love . A similar shift in frame is found in Shakespeare's Son- net 107 , where the poem moves from ...
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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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