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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... memory . In the case of the speaker , on the other hand , the poem's objective lies beyond the present and con- sists of preserving for ( and in ) the future the memory of someone alive in the present . The two sequences also differ in ...
... memory by means of the narrative . These narratively recon- structed life stories have several negative aspects that explain and emo- tionally intensify the desire to preserve them in memory . The villagers ' lives are finished for ever ...
... memory . The function of memory as a contrast and therapeutic response to loss is communicated here by the isotopy preserving , referential , symbolized . That is to say , memory can provide a metonymic link with a past life and a dead ...
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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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