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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... reflected both in the narrating voice , which belongs first to the speaker and then to the swain , and in the kind of ... reflection , speculation , and imagination . This is true of sequence B as well as of sequence A. The emotional and ...
... reflection on the relationship between humans and animals , putting himself in the bat's position and is able to reconstruct and under- stand its motivations ( 11. 59–69 ) . He does not exploit his power to kill it and stops seeing ...
... reflection or per- ception ) and its eventful change are presented in a direct and performative way , almost dramatically . This type is represented with particular clarity in the poems by Hardy and Yeats , in which the event ( a ...
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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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