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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... possible event , i.e. the fulfilment of love , in a departure from the script , is postponed indefinitely and made unattainable ( ' you should if you please refuse / Till the conversion of the Jews ' , 11. 9–10 ) . At the end of the ...
... Possible Implications for the Theory and Analysis of Lyric Poetry We shall now attempt to identify some possible implications of the above observations for the theory of lyric poetry . First , we can see that the fun- damental ...
... possible conditions that poems must meet if the use of narratology is to contribute meaningfully to their analysis . We can be sure of two neces- sary conditions . One is that there be a temporally ordered series of ele- ments on the ...
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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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