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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... respect of the audience and thus give him his special identity . In other words , respectful reception and recognition are the true signs of perfection . The artistic ( and in particular poetic ) significance of the sequence in the ...
... respect , a gradual development takes place in the desire for mental order . In the end , the speaker is in a position to face the unknown , but asks his question nonetheless , for he still wants to know , still strives for cognitive ...
... respect to mediacy , we can begin by noting that the convergence of speaker and protagonist and the direct performative presentation of unfolding mental processes are found in poems from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries . They ...
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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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