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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... role and identity of the speaker from that of a friend to that of a poet . This change in role triggers a corresponding recoding of the thematic frame of reference , a change of frame from the relationship of friend- ship / patronage to ...
... role as lover by adopting the role of lover herself . Adoption of this new role and the resultant implementation of the story in reality are endowed with par- 10 Cf. Berthoff ( 1970 : 110-14 ) . 11 12 From a rhetorical point of view ...
... role as an author . Furthermore , despite the emphasis on receptivity , the covert sustained thematic importance of the authorial role is manifested in the use of internal focalization in which the narrator constantly focalizes himself ...
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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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