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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... poem . As the following analysis shows , it is emphatically not to be read in the sense of a source of plain factual autobiographical information on the genesis of the poem . Rather , it must be understood as an integral part of the poetic ...
... poem itself is ac- tually a carefully - wrought work of art , and whether consequently they then admire the artist's achievement as that of a genius . " Seen from this perspective , eventfulness has moved to the level of reception ...
... poem is mediated becomes a theme : it can be described as atypical of lyric poetry and draws on techniques that we would normally expect to find in the post - modern novel . These techniques include the use of the real author's name and ...
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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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