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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 43
... nature : ' As Rochefoucault his Maxims drew / From Nature , I believe'em true / They argue no corrupted Mind / In him ; the Fault is in Mankind ' ( 11. 1-4 ) . In his paraphrase of the maxim , the speaker stresses human self - interest ...
... nature and the imposition of regulating human order . The script can be defined as the artistic building work ... nature itself the material , so to speak , with which the work is made that predominate . Nature appears partly as ...
... nature . This dynamic mutual relationship ( in the sense of two simultaneously combined and contrasted opposing forces and spheres ) is underlined by the many isotopies based on the fundamental human / natural ( or hu- man / non - human ) ...
Contents
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 |
Copyright | |
15 other sections not shown